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Magnetic Shear

Magnetic Shear is a physical property in magnetized plasmas characterized by the spatial variation in the direction of the magnetic field vector across a flux surface, distinguishing it from uniform or parallel magnetic field configurations.

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Finite-Resistivity Instabilities of a Sheet Pinch

H. P. Furth, J. Killeen, M. N. Rosenbluth · The Physics of Fluids · 1963 · 2.6K citations

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Effects of E×B velocity shear and magnetic shear on turbulence and transport in magnetic confinement devices

K.H. Burrell · Physics of Plasmas · 1997 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Drift waves and transport

W. Horton · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1999 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Chapter 3: MHD stability, operational limits and disruptions

T. C. Hender, J.C. Wesley, J. Bialek et al. · Nuclear Fusion · 2007 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Dynamo-generated Turbulence and Large-Scale Magnetic Fields in a Keplerian Shear Flow

Axel Brandenburg, Åke Nordlund, Robert F. Stein et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 1995 · 836 citations

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    R. Nazikian

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, United States

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    T. D. Phan

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    27 publications · 2.6K citations

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    R. Budny

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, United States

    30 publications · 2.4K citations

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    X. Garbet

    CEA Cadarache, France

    33 publications · 1.9K citations

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    K.H. Burrell

    General Atomics (United States), United States

    25 publications · 4.4K citations

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  1. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    Princeton, United States

    55 h-index

    822 publications

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  2. General Atomics (United States)

    San Diego, United States

    47 h-index

    440 publications

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  3. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

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  4. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

    Garching, Germany

    44 h-index

    519 publications

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  5. Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

    Paris, France

    41 h-index

    418 publications

    24.5K citations

  6. Culham Centre for Fusion Energy

    Abingdon, United Kingdom

    41 h-index

    313 publications

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  7. CEA Cadarache

    Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France

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  8. Fusion (United States)

    Houston, United States

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  4. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

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