Long pulse FRC sustainment with enhanced edge driven rotating magnetic field current drive

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 176-183

  Hoffman, A L ^a   Guo, H Y ^a   Miller, K E ^a   Milroy, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMAS; ROTORS; TOKAMAK DEVICES; TORQUE;

ELECTRON ROTATIONAL VELOCITIES; FIELD REVERSED CONFIGURATIONS (FRC); ROTATING MAGNETIC FIELDS (RMF); TANGENTIAL NEUTRAL BEAM INJECTION (TNBI);

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 15844393516     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/45/3/003     Document Type: Article

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