Blobs and front propagation in the scrape-off layer of magnetic confinement devices

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 671-676

  Bian, N ^a,c   Benkadda, S ^a   Paulsen, J V ^a   Garcia, O E ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA DENSITY; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

SCRAPE-OFF LAYERS (SOL);

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 0037347983     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1541021     Document Type: Article

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