The magnetic flux and self-inductivity of a thick toroidal current

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 741-756

  Tomislav, Žic ^a   Vršnak, Bojan ^a   Skender, Marina ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MAGNETIC FLUX; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ARBITRARY ASPECT RATIO; SELF-INDUCTIVITY; SLENDER-TORUS; THICK TOROIDAL CURRENT;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS;

EID: 34548540646     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: 14697807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022377806006209     Document Type: Article

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