Observation of vortex-like coherent structures in the edge plasma of the ADITYA tokamak

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 4292-4300

  Joseph, B K ^a   Jha, R ^a   Kaw, P K ^a   Mattoo, S K ^a   Rao, C V S ^a   Saxena, Y C ^a   Atrey, P K ^b   Bhatt, S B ^b   Bach, B N ^b   Gupta, C N ^b   Jain, K K ^b   Kumar, A ^b   Patchak, H A ^b   Prabhakara, H R ^b   Pujara, H D ^b   Sathyanarayama, K ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA RESEARCH   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA TURBULENCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

COHERENT STRUCTURES; EDGE PLASMA; ELECTROSTATIC FLUCTUATIONS; FLOATING POTENTIAL FLUCTUATIONS;

PLASMAS;

EID: 0031367783     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.872611     Document Type: Article

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