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Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC)

A high-beta compact toroid magnetic confinement concept where a closed-poloidal-field plasma torus is sustained inside a simple linear…

Average Beta ⟨β⟩ ≈ 1 (High-Beta Compact Toroid) Dimensionless High Beta ⟨β⟩ ~ 0.9 Plasma Physics

Fokker-Planck Equation for Plasmas

The kinetic equation describing the time evolution of a plasma velocity distribution function subject to small-angle Coulomb collisions.

(∂f / ∂t)_coll = -∇_v · (A f) + ½ ∇_v ∇_v : (B f) Kinetic Collision Operator