Physical mechanism of enhanced stability from negative shear in tokamaks: Implications for edge transport and the L‐H transition

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2221-2223

  Antonsen, T M ^a   Drake, J F ^a   Guzdar, P N ^a   Hassam, A B ^a   Lau, Y T ^a   Liu, C S ^a   Novakovskii, S V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

BALLOONING INSTABILITY; H MODE PLASMA CONFINEMENT; MAGNETIC SURFACES; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; SHEAR; TFTR TOKAMAK; TOA; TOKAMAK DEVICES

Indexed keywords

EID: 6144222872     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: 10897674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.871928     Document Type: Letter

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