Boundary integral equation approach based on a polynomial expansion of the current distribution to reconstruct the current density profile in tokamak plasmas

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 153-162

  Itagaki, Masafumi ^a   Yamaguchi, Satoki ^a   Fukunaga, Takaaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASMAS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORS;

CAUCHY-CONDITION SURFACE (CCS) METHOD; GRAD-SHAFRANOV EQUATION; PLASMA CURRENT PROFILE; POLYNOMIAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 15844408326     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/45/3/001     Document Type: Article

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