Analysis of recurrent patterns in toroidal magnetic fields

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1431-1440

  Sanderson, Allen ^a   Chen, Guoning ^a   Tricoche, Xavier ^b   Pugmire, David ^c   Kruger, Scott ^d   Breslau, Joshua ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d TECH X CORPORATION   (United States)

^e PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confined magnetic fusion; magnetic field visualization; map; periodic magnetic fieldlines; Poincar ; recurrent patterns

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELD VISUALIZATION; MAGNETIC FUSION; PERIODIC MAGNETIC FIELDLINES; POINCARE; RECURRENT PATTERNS;

TOPOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 78149268641     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.133     Document Type: Article

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