An advanced plasma control system for Tore Supra

Fusion Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 471-486

  Wijnands, Thijs ^a,b,c,d   Martin, Gilles ^a,c,e,f  

^a IRFM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Operations Group of Tore Supra   (France)

^d Joint European Torus   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^f Department of Fusion Research ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Feedback; Magnetic equilibrium; Plasma control

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; PLASMAS;

GLOBAL PLASMA EQUILIBRIUM; PLASMA BOUNDARY; PLASMA CONTROL SYSTEM; POLOIDAL FIELD GENERATORS;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031271277     PISSN: 07481896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST97-A9     Document Type: Article

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