Plasma current, shape, and position control in ITER

Fusion Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 167-183

  Albanese, Raffaele ^a,b,c   Ambrosino, Giuseppe ^a   Coccorese, Enzo ^a,b,c,d   Morabito, Francesco Carlo ^a,b   Pironti, Alfredo ^a   Rubinacci, Guglielmo ^a,c,e   Scala, Stefano ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c Research Consortium CREATE

^d Faculty of Engineering

^e UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^f ITALIAN AEROSPACE RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Feedback stabilization; ITER tokamak; Plasma shape control

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001022841     PISSN: 07481896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST96-A30749     Document Type: Article

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