Profile consistency
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Profile consistency (or profile resilience) is the observation that profiles (of temperature, density, and pressure) tend to adopt roughly the same shape, regardless of the applied heating and fueling profiles. [1] [2] The resulting profiles are known as canonical profiles. [3]
References
- ↑ B. Coppi, Nonclassical Transport and the "Principle of Profile Consistency", Comments Plasma Phys. Cont. Fusion 5, 6 (1980) 261-270
- ↑ Yu.N. Dnestrovsky et al, Sov. J. Plasma Phys. 16 (1990) 120
- ↑ Yu.N. Dnestrovsky et al, Canonical profiles in tokamak plasmas with an arbitrary cross section, Plasma Physics Reports 28, 11 (2002) 887-899