Momentum transport in the vicinity of qmin in reverse shear tokamaks due to ion temperature gradient turbulence
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due to ion temperature gradient turbulence Rameswar Singh, R Singh, Hogun Jhang, and P. H. Diamond Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382 428, India Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Ecole Polytechnique route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France WCI Center for Fusion Theory, National Fusion Research Institute, Daejeon 305-333, South Korea Center for Momentum Transport and Flow Organization, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, USA Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093-0424, USA
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