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Profile consistency (or profile resilience or stiffness) 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.
Profile consistency (or profile resilience or stiffness) is the observation that profiles (of temperature, density, and pressure) often tend to adopt roughly the same shape, 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>