Feedback stabilization of the resistive shell mode in a tokamak fusion reactor

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2519-2531

  Fitzpatrick, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 0010666429     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.872231     Document Type: Article

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