Abstract
Fluctuation-induced dynamo electric fields are measured over a wide range of electron collisionality in the edge of TPE-1RM20 reversed-field pinch (RFP). In the collisionless region the magnetohydrodynamic dynamo alone can sustain the parallel current, while in the collisional region a new dynamo mechanism resulting from the fluctuations in the electron diamagnetic drift becomes dominant. A comprehensive picture of the RFP dynamo emerges by combining with earlier results from MST and REPUTE RFPs.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1086-1089 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1995 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy