Experimental and computational study of compact torus formation, decay and heating in the Berkeley Compact Torus Experiment

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1669-1681

  Coomer, E ^a   Hartman, C W ^a   Morse, E ^a   Reisman, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA HEATING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRON HEATING; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC DECAY;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 0034275780     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/40/9/310     Document Type: Article

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