Beta-limiting instabilities and global mode stabilization in the National Spherical Torus Experiment

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2085-2092

  Sabbagh, S A ^a   Bell, R E ^b   Bell, M G ^b   Bialek, J ^a   Glasser, A H ^c   Leblanc, B ^b   Menard, J E ^b   Paoletti, F ^a   Stutman, D ^d   Fredrickson, E ^b   Garofalo, A M ^a   Gates, D ^b   Kaye, S M ^b   Lao, L L ^e   Maingi, R ^f   Mueller, D ^b   Navratil, G ^a   Ono, M ^b   Peng, M ^f   Synakowski, E ^b   Zhu, W ^a   more..

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^f OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LIMIT; CONDUCTING WALL; HIGH ENERGY; LOW ASPECT RATIO; MODE STABILIZATION; MODE STRUCTURE; NATIONAL SPHERICAL TORUS EXPERIMENTS; PLASMA CORE; PLASMA CURRENTS; RESISTIVE WALL MODES; SPHERICAL TORUS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY CALCULATION; STABILITY FACTOR; TOROIDAL ROTATION;

ASPECT RATIO; MAGNETOPLASMA; STABILIZATION;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 0001235383     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1468230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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