Published October 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

Rotational soft x-ray tomography of noncircular tokamak plasmas

  • 1. Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08543 (United States)
  • 2. JET Joint Undertaking, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3EA (United Kingdom)

Description

A rotational tomography technique for noncircular tokamak plasmas has been developed. Using a linear transformation from an elliptic coordinate system to the circular one, and compensating for the Shafranov shift, the elliptic plasma shape is transformed to the concentric circular shape. Fitting the data of a quarter rotation to the Fourier--Bessel expansions, the tomography is performed. This technique is applied to the snake oscillation, to the slow sawtooth crash, and to the post-cursor oscillations of noncircular plasmas on JET

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Review of Scientific Instruments
Journal Volume
63
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 4757-4759.
ISSN
0034-6748
CODEN
RSINAK

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