Nonlinear saturation of tearing mode islands.
New, rigorous results for the tearing island saturation problem are presented. These results are valid for the realistic case where the magnetic island structure is non-symmetric about the reconnection surface and the electron temperature, on which the electrical resistivity depends, is evolved self-consistently with the island growth.
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Burning Plasma Research Group, Dipartimento di Energetica, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy.
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