Download or read book Resistive Drift and Alfven Instabilities in Sheared Magnetic Fields written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is shown that, due to finite-.beta. effects, there exist unstable resistive drift and Alfven eigenmodes in a slab plasma with finite magnetic shear. The corresponding growth rates of both instabilities scale with the electron-ion collision frequency .nu./sub ei/ as .nu./sub ei//sup 1/2.