Relaxed states for Ohmically driven tokamaks with an arbitrary aspect ratio

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1445-1452

  Zhang, Cheng ^a   Zhou, Deng ^a   Menard, Jonathan E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS   (China)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE; OHMIC DISSIPATION; PLASMA RELAXATION STATES; REVERSED-FIELD-PINCH (RFP);

ASPECT RATIO; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ENTROPY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMAS;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 2542453919     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1649995     Document Type: Article

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