Sustained rotational stabilization of DIII-D plasmas above the no-wall beta limit

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1997-2005

  Garofalo, A M ^a   Jensen, T H ^a   Johnson, L C ^a   La Haye, R J ^a   Navratil, G A ^a   Okabayashi, M ^a   Scoville, J T ^a   Strait, E J ^a   Baker, D R ^a   Bialek, J ^a   Chu, M S ^a   Ferron, J R ^a   Jayakumar, J ^a   Lao, L L ^a   Makowski, M A ^a   Reimerdes, H ^a   Taylor, T S ^a   Turnbull, A D ^a   Wade, M R ^a   Wong, S K ^a  

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LIMIT; ERROR FIELD; EXTERNAL COILS; EXTERNAL CURRENTS; KINK MODES; MARGINAL STABILITY; PLASMA RESPONSE; PLASMA ROTATIONS; RESONANT RESPONSE; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY LIMIT; STRONG DAMPING; SUSTAINED OPERATIONS; TOROIDAL ROTATION;

AMPLIFICATION; DAMPING; EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOPLASMA; PLASMA STABILITY; ROTATION;

STABILIZATION;

EID: 0001580819     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1446036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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