On the efficiency of intrinsic rotation generation in tokamaks
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Y. Kosuga, P. H. Diamond, and Ö. D. Gürcan Department of Physics and Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA WCI Center for Fusion Theory, National Fusion Research Institute, Gwahangno 113, Yusung-gu, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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The goal of magnetic confinement devices such as tokamaks is to produce energy from nuclear fusion reactions in plasmas at low densities and high temperatures. Experimentally, toroidal flows have been found to significantly improve the energy confinement, and therefore the performance of the machine. As extrinsic momentum sources will be limited in future fusion devices such as ITER, an underst...
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