the act or condition of containing, esp of restraining the ideological or political power of a hostile country or the operations of a hostile military force
2.
(from 1947 to the mid-1970s) a principle of US foreign policy that sought to prevent the expansion of Communist power
3. Also called: confinement physics
the process of preventing the plasma in a controlled thermonuclear reactor from reaching the walls of the reaction vessel, usually by confining it within a configuration of magnetic fields
magnetic bottle
Examples of 'magnetic confinement' in a sentence
magnetic confinement
The possibility of applying the obtained results to magnetic confinement devices are discussed.
S.M. Moawad, O.H. El-Kalaawy, H.M. Shaker 2017, 'Some axisymmetric equilibria for certain ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamicswith incompressible flows', Results in Physicshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379717305338. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
There were only four magnetic confinement fusion concepts pursued internationally: tokamak, stellarator, pinch, and mirror.
Laila A. El-Guebaly 2010, 'Fifty Years of Magnetic Fusion Research (1958–2008): Brief Historical Overview andDiscussion of Future Trends', Energieshttp://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/3/6/1067/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Three different magnetic confinement devices are studied, and similar results areobtained.
Boudewijn van Milligen, Benjamin Carreras, Luis García, Javier Nicolau 2019, 'The Radial Propagation of Heat in Strongly Driven Non-Equilibrium Fusion Plasmas',Entropyhttps://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/2/148. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We then show good performance of the method in an application to a scaling law in magnetic confinement fusion.
Geert Verdoolaege 2015, 'A New Robust Regression Method Based on Minimization of Geodesic Distances on a ProbabilisticManifold: Application to Power Laws', Entropyhttp://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/7/4602. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)