Advanced antenna system for Alfvén wave plasma heating and current drive in TCABR tokamak

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-28

  Ruchko, L F ^a,b   Ozono, E ^a   Galvao R M O ^a   Nascimento, I C ^a   Degasperi, F T ^a   Lerche, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Alfv n wave plasma heating; Antenna system; TCABR tokamak

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PLASMA HEATING; RESONANT CIRCUITS; SHEAR WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ALFVEN WAVES;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 0032184327     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(98)00260-9     Document Type: Article

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