Particle and heat transport in a dense wall-confined MTF plasma (theory and simulations)

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 955-960

  Ryutov, D D ^a   Barnes, D C ^b   Bauer, B S ^c   Hammer, J H ^a   Hartman, C W ^a   Kirkpatrick, R C ^b   Lindemuth, I R ^b   Makhin, V ^c   Parks, P B ^d   Reisman, D B ^a   Sheehey, P T ^b   Siemon, R E ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; FUSION REACTIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; MAGNETIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA STABILITY; PLASMA TURBULENCE;

BOHM DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; INTER-PARTICLE COLLISIONS; MAGNETIZED TARGET FUSION SYSTEMS; PLASMA CONVECTION; PLASMA MICROTURBULENCE;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 0141731352     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/43/9/320     Document Type: Article

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