Annual progress report on fusion plasma theory task III: auxiliary heating in tokamaks and tandem mirrors

Technical Report · Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:6948288

Scharer, J E

The research we have accomplished during the past year has focussed on ICRF coupling, heating and breakeven studies for tokamaks and ECRF fundamental second harmonic heating in tandem mirrors. The studies have included ICRF Fokker-Planck heating and breakeven studies for large tokamaks such as JET, fundamental work on a new wave power absorption and conservation relation for ICRF in inhomogeneous plasmas, a formulation and code development for ICRF waveguide coupling in tokamak edge regions. ECRF ray tracing studies have been carried out for fundamental and second harmonic propagation, absorption and whistler microinstabilities in tandem mirror plug and barrier regions of Phaedrus, TMX-U and TASKA. The two-dimensional velocity space, time dependent Fokker-Planck heating studies have concentrated on D-T breakeven scenarios for fundamental minority deuterium and second harmonic tritium regimes.

• Research Organization: Wisconsin Univ., Madison (USA). Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-80ER53104
• OSTI ID: 6948288
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/53104-10; ON: DE84014940
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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