Viscous relaxation of drift-Alfv́n waves in tokamaks and its application for triggering improved confinement regimes

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Tsypin, V S ^a   Elfimov, A G ^a   Galvao R M O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; TOKAMAK DEVICES; VISCOSITY;

COLLISION FREQUENCY; DYNAMIC ERGODIC DIVERTORS; TOROIDAL VELOCITIES; VISCOUS RELAXATION;

PLASMA WAVES;

EID: 34047108529     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2434792     Document Type: Article

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