Ion cyclotron resonance frequency heating of deuterium plasmas in the Joint European Torus: Modeling of the resonant minority ion distribution function

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3489-3497

  Testa, D ^a,b,c   Core, W G F ^a   Gondhalekar, A ^a  

^a CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; DEUTERIUM; DISPERSION (WAVES); ITERATIVE METHODS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT;

FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATIONS; HOT-PLASMA DISPERSIONS; ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE FREQUENCY (ICRF) HEATING; NEUTRAL BEAM INJECTION (NBI);

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 0032606184     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873631     Document Type: Article

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