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Modeling of electron-cyclotron-resonance-heated plasmas

Girard1, Pernot, Melin

  • 1Departement de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matiere Condensee, SI2A, CEA Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.

Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics
|November 23, 2000
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