Chaos healing by separatrix disappearance and quasisingle helicity states of the reversed field pinch

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 3169-3172

  Escande, D F ^a,c   Paccagnella, R ^a,b   Capello, S ^a,b   Marchetto, C ^a   D'Angelo, F ^a  

^a Corso Stati Uniti 4 ^*  (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMAS; RESONANCE; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TOKAMAK DEVICES;

CHAOS HEALING; HELICAL STRUCTURES; MAGNETIC CHAOS; ONE DEGREE OF FREEDOM HAMILTONIAN DYNAMICS; QUASISINGLE HELICITY STATES; SADDLE NODE BIFURCATION; SEPARATRIX DISAPPEARANCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 20644463192     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3169     Document Type: Article

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