Advanced tokamak research in DIII-D

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Volumn 46, Issue 12 B, 2004, Pages

  Greenfield, C M ^a   Murakami, M ^g   Ferron, J R ^a   Wade, M R ^g   Luce, T C ^a   Petty, C C ^a   Menard, J E ^b   Petrie, T W ^a   Allen, S L ^c   Burrell, K H ^a   Casper, T A ^c   DeBoo, J C ^a   Doyle, E J ^d   Garofalo, A M ^e   Gorelov, I A ^a   Groebner, R J ^a   Hobirk, J ^f   Hyatt, A W ^a   Jayakumar, R J ^c   Kessel, C E ^b   La Haye, R J ^a   Jackson, G L ^a   Lao, L L ^a   Lohr, J ^a   Makowski, M A ^c   Pinsker, R I ^a   Politzer, P A ^a   Prater, R ^a   Staebler, G M ^a   Strait, E J ^a   Taylor, T S ^a   West, W P ^a   more..

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; FUSION REACTIONS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; PLASMAS; SHEAR FLOW;

ADVANCED TOKAMAK (AT); BOOTSTRAP CURRENT; MAGNETIC SHEAR; TOKAMAK RESEARCH;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 19944430869     PISSN: 07413335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/46/12B/019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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