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Title: Microwave heating and current drive in tokamaks

Abstract

The use of powerful microwave sources provide unique opportunities for novel and efficient heating and current-drive schemes in the electron-cyclotron and lower-hybrid ranges of frequencies. Free- electron lasers and relativistic klystrons are new sources that have a number of technical advantages over conventional, lower-intensity sources; their use can lead to improved current-drive efficiencies and better penetration into a reactor-grade plasma in specific cases. This paper reports on modeling of absorption and current drive, in intense-pulse and quasilinear regimes, and on analysis of parametric instabilities and self-focusing. 16 refs., 2 figs.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA); General Atomics Co., San Diego, CA (USA); Hunter Coll., New York (USA); Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
5676346
Report Number(s):
UCRL-98503; IAEA-CN-50/G-4-10; CONF-881015-17
ON: DE88017019; TRN: 88-036407
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48; AC02-78ET51013; AC03-84ER53158; FG02-84ER53187
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 12. international conference on plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion research, Nice (France), 12-19 Oct 1988
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; TOKAMAK DEVICES; MICROWAVE HEATING; ECR HEATING; EFFICIENCY; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LOWER HYBRID HEATING; CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; HEATING; HIGH-FREQUENCY HEATING; LASERS; PLASMA HEATING; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES; 700101* - Fusion Energy- Plasma Research- Confinement, Heating, & Production

Citation Formats

Cohen, B I, Cohen, R H, Kerbel, G D, Logan, B G, Matsuda, Y, McCoy, M G, Nevins, W M, Rognlien, T D, Smith, G R, Harvey, R W, Kritz, A H, Bonoli, P T, and Porkolab, M. Microwave heating and current drive in tokamaks. United States: N. p., 1988. Web.
Cohen, B I, Cohen, R H, Kerbel, G D, Logan, B G, Matsuda, Y, McCoy, M G, Nevins, W M, Rognlien, T D, Smith, G R, Harvey, R W, Kritz, A H, Bonoli, P T, & Porkolab, M. Microwave heating and current drive in tokamaks. United States.
Cohen, B I, Cohen, R H, Kerbel, G D, Logan, B G, Matsuda, Y, McCoy, M G, Nevins, W M, Rognlien, T D, Smith, G R, Harvey, R W, Kritz, A H, Bonoli, P T, and Porkolab, M. 1988. "Microwave heating and current drive in tokamaks". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5676346.
@article{osti_5676346,
title = {Microwave heating and current drive in tokamaks},
author = {Cohen, B I and Cohen, R H and Kerbel, G D and Logan, B G and Matsuda, Y and McCoy, M G and Nevins, W M and Rognlien, T D and Smith, G R and Harvey, R W and Kritz, A H and Bonoli, P T and Porkolab, M},
abstractNote = {The use of powerful microwave sources provide unique opportunities for novel and efficient heating and current-drive schemes in the electron-cyclotron and lower-hybrid ranges of frequencies. Free- electron lasers and relativistic klystrons are new sources that have a number of technical advantages over conventional, lower-intensity sources; their use can lead to improved current-drive efficiencies and better penetration into a reactor-grade plasma in specific cases. This paper reports on modeling of absorption and current drive, in intense-pulse and quasilinear regimes, and on analysis of parametric instabilities and self-focusing. 16 refs., 2 figs.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5676346}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 1988},
month = {Tue Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 1988}
}

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