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Radial convection of plasma structures in a turbulent rotating magnetized-plasma column

Th Pierre1, A Escarguel, D Guyomarc'h

  • 1Laboratoire PIIM, UMR 6633 CNRS, Université de Provence, 13397 Marseille CEDEX 20, France.

Physical Review Letters
|March 5, 2004
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