The relationships between edge localized modes suppression, pedestal profiles and lithium wall coatings in NSTX

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Boyle, D P ^a   Maingi, R ^b   Snyder, P B ^c   Manickam, J ^a   Osborne, T H ^c   Bell, R E ^a   Leblanc, B P ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOONING MODES; BOOTSTRAP CURRENT; DENSITY GRADIENTS; DENSITY PEDESTAL; DENSITY PROFILE CONTROL; EDGE CURRENTS; EDGE LOCALIZED MODES; EDGE STABILITY; NATIONAL SPHERICAL TORUS EXPERIMENTS; PRESSURE PEDESTAL; PROFILE ANALYSIS; SEPARATRIX; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY BOUNDARIES;

COATINGS; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

LITHIUM;

EID: 80053143370     PISSN: 07413335     EISSN: 13616587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/53/10/105011     Document Type: Article

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