Self-Consistent Full-Wave/Fokker-Planck Calculations for Ion Cyclotron Heating in Non-Maxwellian Plasmas

Journal Article · Mon Sep 26 04:00:00 EDT 2005 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2098189· OSTI ID:20726319

Jaeger, E F; Berry, L A; Batchelor, D B; Carter, M D; D'Azevedo, E ^[1]; Harvey, R W ^[2]; Myra, J R; D'Ippolito, D A ^[3]; Dumont, R J ^[4]; Phillips, C K ^[5]; Smithe, D N ^[6]; Bonoli, P T; Wright, J C ^[7]

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1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6169 (United States)
2. CompX, P.O. Box 2672, Del Mar, CA 92014-5672 (United States)
3. Lodestar Research Corporation, 2400 Central Avenue P-5, Boulder, CO 80301 (United States)
4. Association EURATOM-CEA sur la Fusion, CEA/DSM/DRFC, CEA-Cadarache (France)
5. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543 (United States)
6. ATK-Mission Research, 8560 Cinderbed Rd., Suite 700, Newington, VA 22122-85601 (United States)
7. Plasma Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)

Self-consistent solutions for the wave electric field and particle distribution function are calculated for ion cyclotron heating in non-Maxwellian plasmas. The all-orders wave solver AORSA is generalized to treat non-thermal velocity distributions arising from fusion reactions, neutral beam injection, and wave driven diffusion in velocity space. Quasi-linear diffusion coefficients are derived directly from the wave electric fields and used to calculate velocity distribution functions with the CQL3D Fokker-Planck code. Self-consistent results are obtained by iterating the full-wave and Fokker-Planck solutions.

• OSTI ID: 20726319
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 787; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
BEAM INJECTION HEATING
C CODES
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
DIFFUSION
DISTRIBUTION
DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
ELECTRIC FIELDS
FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION
ICR HEATING
MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS
NEUTRAL ATOM BEAM INJECTION
PLASMA
PLASMA SIMULATION
RF SYSTEMS