Burning plasma confinement projections and renormalization of the GLF23 drift-wave transport model

Fusion Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 763-775

  Kinsey, Jonathan E ^a   Staebler, Gary M ^b   Waltz, Ronald E ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Burning plasma; Tokamak; Transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON TRAPS; FUSION REACTIONS; HEAT FLUX; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BURNING PLASMA; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS (ETG); INTERNAL TRANSPORT BARRIERS (ITB); ION TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS (ITG); TRAPPED ELECTRON MODE (TEM);

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 0346937655     PISSN: 15361055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST03-A414     Document Type: Article

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