Magnetic-field scaling of dimensionally similar tokamak discharges
- 5 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 65 (19) , 2390-2393
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.65.2390
Abstract
Dimensionally similar tokamak discharges with all dimensionless parameters the same except the relative gyroradius can be scaled to ignition-regime discharges of larger size and/or field in analogy to the principles of wind-tunnel design. This Letter describes the first controlled experiment to determine whether the scaling with relative gyroradius corresponds to short- or long-wavelength turbulence.Keywords
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