Plasma heating and current drive: Numerical methods

Fusion Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 258-263

  Van Eester, D ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMA WAVES;

CURRENT DRIVE; PARALLELIZATION; VECTORIZATION; WAVE EQUATION;

PLASMA HEATING;

EID: 0030091548     PISSN: 07481896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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