Profile consistency
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