Collisionality and magnetic geometry effects on tokamak edge turbulent transport. II. Many-blob turbulence in the two-region model

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Russell, D A ^a   Myra, J R ^a   D'Ippolito, D A ^a  

^a LODESTAR RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; VELOCITY CONTROL;

COLLISIONALITY; DENSITY TRANSPORT; MAGNETIC GEOMETRY;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 36049024667     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2780137     Document Type: Article

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