Current profile tailoring using localized electron cyclotron heating in highly elongated TCV plasmas

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 586-598

  Camenen, Y ^a   Hofmann, F ^a   Pochelon, A ^a   Scarabosio, A ^a   Alberti, S ^a   Arnoux, G ^a   Blanchard, P ^a   Coda, S ^a   Goodman, T P ^a   Henderson, M A ^a   Nelson Melby, E ^a   Porte, L ^a   Sauter, O ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONIC CONDUCTION; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; OHMIC CONTACTS; PLASMA HEATING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

2ND HARMONIC (X2); MULTI-HARMONICS MODE; PLASMA INTERNAL INDUCTANCE; TCV PLASMAS;

ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE;

EID: 34547420744     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: 17414326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/47/7/010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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