Zonal and poloidal — In magnetic confinement fusion the zonal direction primarily connotes the poloidal direction (i.e. the short way around the torus), the corresponding coordinate being denoted by y in the slab approximation or θ in magnetic coordinates. However,… … Wikipedia
Toroidal — may refer to:*Toroidal inductors and transformers, a type of electrical device *Toroid, a doughnut shaped object whose surface is a torus *Toroidal and poloidal, directions in magnetohydrodynamics *Toroidal coordinates, a three dimensional… … Wikipedia
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Poloidal toroidal decomposition — In vector analysis, a mathematical discipline, a three dimensional solenoidal vector field F can be considered to be generated by a pair of scalar potentials Psi; and Phi;:: mathbf{F} = abla imes Psi mathbf{k} + abla imes ( abla imes Phi… … Wikipedia
Madison Symmetric Torus — Infobox Magnetic Fusion Device name = Madison Symmetric Torus dev type=Reversed field pinch loc=Madison, Wisconsin, USA rad maj = 1.50 m rad min = 52 cm aspect = 2.88|The Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) is a reversed field pinch (RFP) physics… … Wikipedia
Timeline of nuclear fusion — Timeline of significant events in the study and use of nuclear fusion:*1929 Atkinson and Houtermans used the measured masses of low mass elements and applied Einstein s discovery that E=mc2 to predict that large amounts of energy could be… … Wikipedia
List of mathematics articles (T) — NOTOC T T duality T group T group (mathematics) T integration T norm T norm fuzzy logics T schema T square (fractal) T symmetry T table T theory T.C. Mits T1 space Table of bases Table of Clebsch Gordan coefficients Table of divisors Table of Lie … Wikipedia
EAST — The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST, internal designation HT 7U) is an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, in eastern China. The experiment is being … Wikipedia
National Spherical Torus Experiment — NSTX Type Spherical tokamak Operation date 1999– Major radius 0.85 m Minor Radius 0.68 m … Wikipedia
Zonal flow (plasma) — In toroidally confined fusion plasma experiments the term zonal flow means a plasma flow within a magnetic surface primarily in the poloidal direction. This usage is inspired by the analogy between the quasi two dimensional nature of large scale… … Wikipedia
