OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
This constant is named after British physicist Paul Harding Rutherford. It appears in his equation of growth of nonlinear magnetic islands in tokamaks. - Amiram Eldar, Aug 14 2020
LINKS
Paul Harding Rutherford, Nonlinear growth of the tearing mode, The Physics of Fluids, Vol. 16, No. 11 (1973), pp. 1903-1908, alternative link.
A. Samain, Diamagnetic destabilization of magnetic islands in the non-linear regime, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 26, No. 5 (1984), pp. 731-747.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Rutherford Constant
EXAMPLE
0.8227058113039496...
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
cons,nonn
AUTHOR
Kritsada Moomuang, Dec 17 2018
STATUS
approved