Strike point control for the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Kolemen, E ^a   Gates, D A ^a   Rowley, C W ^b   Kasdin, N J ^b   Kallman, J ^a   Gerhardt, S ^a   Soukhanovskii, V ^a   Mueller, D ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ALGORITHMS; DENSITY REDUCTION; DIVERTORS; FUSION EXPERIMENTS; NATIONAL SPHERICAL TORUS EXPERIMENTS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PF COILS; POINT LOCATION; POLOIDAL FIELD COILS; PROPORTIONAL INTEGRAL DERIVATIVE CONTROLLERS; PUMPING RATE; SET-POINT; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SPHERICAL TORUS;

EXPERIMENTS; LITHIUM; PUMPS; SPEED CONTROL;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 78249261856     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: 17414326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/50/10/105010     Document Type: Article

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