Measurement of core velocity fluctuations and the dynamo in a reversed-field pinch
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Plasma flow velocity fluctuations have been directly measured in the high temperature magnetically confined plasma in the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) Reversed-Field Pinch (RFP) [R. N. Dexter et al., Fusion Tech. 19, 131 (1991)]. These measurements show that the flow velocity fluctuations are correlated with magnetic field fluctuations such that the electromotive force v ̃ H B ̃ approximately balances parallel Ohm's law, E 2 + v ̃ H B ̃ 2 = η J 2 . This initial
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تاریخ انتشار 1998