Increased confinement improvement in a reversed-field pinch using double-pulsed poloidal current drive

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2925-2931

  Yagi, Y ^a   Koguchi, H ^a   Hirano, Y ^a   Shimada, T ^a   Sakakita, H ^a   Sekine, S ^a   Chapman, B E ^b   Sarff, J S ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMAS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

PLASMA CURRENTS;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 0038105081     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1581883     Document Type: Article

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