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The basic concepts governing plasma self-organization, i.e. the conservation of the profile shape of specific plasma parameters (pressure, temperature, toroidal rotation velocity) under the influence of external sources of heat, particles and torque are discussed. Examples of the self-organization in tokamaks with circular and elongated cross-sections are shown. The possibility of plasma self-organization in stellarators is considered. A brief review is given of the mathematical models describing the canonical profiles of plasma parameters.

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Dnestrovskij, Y. (2015). Introduction. In: Self-Organization of Hot Plasmas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06802-2_1

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