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Profile consistency (or profile resilience) is the observation that profiles (of temperature, density, and pressure) often tend to adopt roughly the same shape (in tokamaks), regardless of the applied heating and fueling profiles. | Profile consistency (or profile resilience) is the observation that profiles (of temperature, density, and pressure) often tend to adopt roughly the same shape (in [[Tokamak|tokamaks]]), regardless of the applied heating and fueling profiles. | ||
<ref>B. Coppi, ''Nonclassical Transport and the "Principle of Profile Consistency"'', Comments Plasma Phys. Cont. Fusion '''5''', 6 (1980) 261-270</ref> | <ref>B. Coppi, ''Nonclassical Transport and the "Principle of Profile Consistency"'', Comments Plasma Phys. Cont. Fusion '''5''', 6 (1980) 261-270</ref> | ||
<ref>Yu.N. Dnestrovsky et al, Sov. J. Plasma Phys. '''16''' (1990) 120</ref> | <ref>Yu.N. Dnestrovsky et al, Sov. J. Plasma Phys. '''16''' (1990) 120</ref> | ||
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i.e., the feedback mechanism regulating the profiles (by turbulence) is often dominant over the various source terms. | i.e., the feedback mechanism regulating the profiles (by turbulence) is often dominant over the various source terms. | ||
<ref>[http://link.aip.org/link/?PHPAEN/8/4096/1 F. Jenko et al, ''Critical gradient formula for toroidal electron temperature gradient modes'', Phys. Plasmas '''8''' (2001) 4096]</ref> | <ref>[http://link.aip.org/link/?PHPAEN/8/4096/1 F. Jenko et al, ''Critical gradient formula for toroidal electron temperature gradient modes'', Phys. Plasmas '''8''' (2001) 4096]</ref> | ||
Recently, some indication of profile consistency has also been obtained for [[Stellarator|stellarators]]. | |||
<ref>[http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Meetings/FEC2008/th_p8-24.pdf Yu.N. Dnestrovsky et al, IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Geneva (2008) TH/P8-24]</ref> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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