Magnetic Helicity Injection Mechanism for Double-Null Startup of the UTST Spherical Tokamak Plasmas
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Plasma and Fusion Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1880-6821
DOI: 10.1585/pfr.6.1202131