Importance of centrifugal effects for the internal kink mode stability in toroidally rotating tokamak plasmas
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in toroidally rotating tokamak plasmas C. Wahlberg, I. T. Chapman, and J. P. Graves Department of Physics and Astronomy, EURATOM/VR Fusion Association, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 516, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden EURATOM/CCFE Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, United Kingdom Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas, Association EURATOM-Confederation Suisse, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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