Plasma transport across a braided magnetic field

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Thomas H. Stix · Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Abstract

Simple fluid and particle models are used to estimate the transport of density, current, and electron heat for a plasma immersed in a region through which magnetic lines of force meander in a stochastic fashion and in which magnetic surfaces are destroyed.

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Magnetic confinement fusion research Plasma Diagnostics and Applications Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics

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Published in: Nuclear Fusion

Volume 18, Issue 3, pp. 353-358

DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/18/3/006

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 4.65

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Plasma transport across a braided magnetic field

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