We describe the suppression of ionization instability and the control of a magnetohydrodynamic electrical power-generating plasma by coupling with a radio-frequency (rf) electromagnetic field. The rf heating stabilizes the unstable plasma behavior and homogenizes the nonuniform plasma structure, whereby the power-generating performance is significantly improved.
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