Bifurcated states of a rotating tokamak plasma in the presence of a static error-field

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3325-3341

  Fitzpatrick, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOPLASMA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; VISCOSITY;

PLASMA ROTATION; ROTATING TOKAMAK PLASMA;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 0032158380     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873000     Document Type: Article

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