Modifications to the edge current profile with auxiliary edge current drive and improved confinement in a reversed-field pinch

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 3491-3494

  Chapman, B E ^a   Biewer, T M ^a   Chattopadhyay, P K ^a   Chiang, C S ^a   Craig, D J ^a   Crocker, N A ^a   Den Hartog, D J ^a   Fiksel, G ^a   Fontana, P W ^a   Prager, S C ^a   Sarff, J S ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

CHARGED PARTICLE TRANSPORT; CURRENT DRIVE HEATING; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; REVERSE FIELD PINCH; REVERSED FIELD PINCH DEVICES

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; PLASMA TURBULENCE;

AUXILIARY CURRENT DRIVE; EDGE CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MADISON SYMMETRIC TORUS; MAGNETIC FLUCTUATION; MEASURED REDUCTION; PARALLEL CURRENTS; REVERSED FIELD PINCH;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 84995426913     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: 10897674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1287913     Document Type: Letter

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