Difference in electron transport between co- and counter-nbi-heated plasmas in the inward-shifted configurations on LHD

Fusion Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 262-270

  Funaba, Hisamichi ^a   Ohyabu, Nobuyoshi ^a   Takeiri, Yasuhiko ^a   Watanabe, Kiyomasa ^a   Kubo, Shin ^a   Shimozuma, Takashi ^a   Ida, Katsumi ^a   Miyazawa, Junichi ^a   Sakamoto, Ryuichi ^a   Nagaoka, Kenichi ^a   Tanaka, Kenji ^a   Peterson, Byron Jay ^a   Osakabe, Masaki ^a   Nagayama, Yoshio ^a   Inagaki, Shigeru ^a   Narushima, Yoshiro ^a   Sakakibara, Satoru ^a   Murakami, Sadayoshi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FUSION SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron transport; Large Helical Device; Neutral beam injection

Indexed keywords

COBALT; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA HEATING; THERMAL DIFFUSION;

LARGE HELICAL DEVICES (LHD); LOW-DENSITY PLASMAS; NEUTRAL BEAM INJECTION (NBI);

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 6444226004     PISSN: 15361055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST04-A564     Document Type: Conference Paper

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