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Equations for the three-dimensional equilibrium of a plasma are formulated in the poloidal representation. The magnetic field is expressed in terms of the poloidal magnetic flux Psi and the poloidal electric current F. As a result, three-dimensional equili ...
A review. The following topics are discussed: interaction of mols. with magnetic field (shielding function); special NMR properties of arom. mols.; magnetically induced current densities and related models; induced magnetic fields of mols.; electron deloca ...
A semi-implicit spectral/finite difference technique is used to evolve a reduced set of the visco-resistive MHD equations to investigate nonlinear processes involving reconnection on a planar current sheet. Two particular cases, of interest in astrophysica ...
Current profile tailoring has been performed by application of electron cyclotron heating (ECH) and electron cyclotron current drive, leading to improved energy confinement in the plasma core of the TCV tokamak. The improved confinement is characterized by ...
Deposition, integration and application issues of ferroelectric thin films are briefly reviewed. Applications in ultrasonic micromotors and infra-red sensors are treated in more detail. Current results on stress measurements across the ferroelectric phase ...
The global ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability of plasmas with a prescribed helical boundary deformation and nonvanishing toroidal current is investigated with respect to the (m,n) external modes with n = 1,2,3, and m = n + 1. L = 2, 3 and mixtures ( ...
Changes of the toroidal plasma rotation induced by directed waves in the ion-cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) have been identified experimentally for the first time on the JET tokamak. The momentum carried by the waves is initially absorbed by fast re ...
Observations of nearly zero toroidal current in the central region of tokamaks (the "current hole") raises the question of the existence of toroidal equilibria with very low or reversed current in the core. The solutions of the Grad-Shafranov equilibrium e ...