Integrated plasma control for advanced tokamaks

Proceedings - Symposium on Fusion Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 20-26

  Humphreys, D A ^a   Ferron, J R ^a   Johnson, R ^a   Leuer, J A ^a   Penaflor, B C ^a   Walker, M L ^a   Welander, A S ^a   Khayrutdinov, R R ^b   Dokouka, V ^b   Edgell, D H ^c   Fransson, C M ^d  

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^b TROITSK INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION AND FUSION RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c FAR TECH Inc   (United States)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CONTROLLERS; PLASMA CONTROL SYSTEM; SYSTEM RESPONSE;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA HEATING; PLASMAS; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 27644451783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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