Ideal magnetohydrodynamic stability of the tokamak high-confinement-mode edge region

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 6, Issue 5 I, 1999, Pages 1925-1934

  Wilson, H R ^a   Connor, J W ^a   Field, A R ^a   Fielding, S J ^a   Miller, R L ^b   Lao, L L ^b   Ferron, J R ^b   Turnbull, A D ^b  

^a CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

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EID: 0001505176     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873492     Document Type: Article

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