Study of ion turbulent transport and profile formations using global gyrokinetic full-f Vlasov simulation

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Idomura, Y ^a   Urano, H ^a   Aiba, N ^a   Tokuda, S ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PROPAGATION; COLLISION OPERATORS; CRITICAL VALUE; EQUILIBRIUM PROFILES; FOKKER PLANCK; GYROKINETIC; ION TEMPERATURE; ION TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; KEY FEATURE; MOMENTUM FLUX; MOMENTUM TRANSPORTS; PROFILE FORMATION; RADIAL ELECTRIC FIELD; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; TOKAMAK PLASMAS; TOROIDAL ROTATION; TURBULENCE SIMULATION; TURBULENT TRANSPORTS; VLASOV SIMULATION;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FUSION REACTORS; OPEN SYSTEMS; PLASMA SIMULATION; TURBULENCE;

IONS;

EID: 67649529398     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: 17414326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/49/6/065029     Document Type: Article

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