Task III: auxillary heating in tokamaks and tandem mirrors. Progress report on fusion plasma theory

Technical Report · Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5482003

Scharer, J E

The research we have accomplished with this grant has focused on ICRF coupling, wave propagation, heating and breakeven studies for tokamaks such as JET. The highlights include fundamental work on a differential equation for wave fields incorporating equilibrium gradients, strong absorption and mode conversion and a new wave power absorption and conservation relation for ICRF in inhomogeneous plasmas. We have also formulated and developed a code which solves differential equation for ICRF waveguide coupling in tokamak edge density regions. We are also examining the excitation of ion Bernstein waves from fast magnetosonic waves occurring in density gradients. Our current efforts involve the explanation of current JET ICRF results such as the large electron sawteeth in the core region in terms of hot, non-Maxwellian ICRF theory.

• Research Organization: Wisconsin Univ., Madison (USA). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-86ER53218
• OSTI ID: 5482003
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/53218-3; ON: DE86012794
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
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INHOMOGENEOUS PLASMA
PLASMA SCRAPE-OFF LAYER
BOUNDARY LAYERS
CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES
HEATING
HIGH-FREQUENCY HEATING
LAYERS
OSCILLATION MODES
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THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
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