Recent progress on the development and analysis of the ITPA global H-mode confinement database

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 147-174

  McDonald, D C ^a   Cordey, J G ^a   Thomsen, K ^b   Kardaun, O J W F ^b   Snipes, J A ^c   Greenwald, M ^c   Sugiyama, L ^c   Ryter, F ^d   Kus, A ^d   Stober, J ^d   Deboo, J C ^e   Petty, C C ^e   Bracco, G ^f   Romanelli, M ^f   Cui, Z ^g   Liu, Y ^g   Miura, Y ^h   Shinohara, K ^h   Tsuzuki, K ^h   Kamada, Y ^h   Takizuka, T ^h   Urano, H ^h   Valovic, M ^a   Akers, R ^a   Brickley, C ^a   Sykes, A ^a   Walsh, M J ^a   Kaye, S M ⁱ   Bush, C ⁱ   Hogewei, D ^j   Martin, Y R ^k   Cote, A ^l   Pacher, G ^l   Ongena, J ^m   Imbeaux, F ⁿ   Hoang, G T ⁿ   Lebedev, S ^o   Chudnovskiy, A ^p   Leonov, V ^p   more..

^a CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b EFDA CLOSE SUPPORT UNIT   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^f ASSOCIAZIONE EURATOM ENEA SULLA FUSIONE   (Italy)

^g South Western Institute of Physics   (China)

^h JAPAN ATOM ENER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

ⁱ PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^j FOM INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA PHYSICS RIJNHUIZEN   (Netherlands)

^k EPFL   (Switzerland)

^l Cent Canadien de Fusion Magnetique   (Canada)

^m ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

ⁿ IRFM   (France)

^o IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^p KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW-ASPECT RATIO PLASMAS; PARAMETER ANALYSES; PLASMA DISCHARGES;

ASPECT RATIO; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DEUTERIUM; TOKAMAK DEVICES; TRITIUM;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 34247216110     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: 17414326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/47/3/001     Document Type: Article

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