Beltrami fields in plasmas: High-confinement mode boundary layers and high beta equilibria

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 8, Issue 5 II, 2001, Pages 2125-2131

  Yoshida, Z ^a   Mahajan, S M ^b   Ohsaki, S ^a   Iqbal, M ^a   Shatashvili, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 0035333160     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1354149     Document Type: Article

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