Helicity-injected current drive and open flux instabilities in spherical tokamaks

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Brennan, D P ^a   Browning, P K ^b   Gates, J ^a   Van Der Linden, R A M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LENGTH; CURRENT DRIVES; CURRENT ESTIMATES; CURRENT PROFILE; GEOMETRIC LENGTH; HELICITY; HELICITY INJECTION; HIGH CURRENTS; INJECTED CURRENT; MODE STRUCTURE; NEW RESULTS; PLASMA CURRENTS; RESONANCE EFFECT; RESONANT MODE; SPHERICAL TOKAMAK; SPHERICAL TOKAMAKS; SPHEROMAKS; STABILITY BOUNDARIES; STABILITY MAP; STABLE REGION; TOROIDAL CURRENTS; TOROIDAL FIELDS; TOROIDAL MODE NUMBERS;

FUSION REACTORS; PLASMAS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SAFETY FACTOR; SETTLING TANKS; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

STABILITY;

EID: 67649718338     PISSN: 07413335     EISSN: 13616587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/51/4/045004     Document Type: Article

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