Three-dimensional transmission of the fast wave in ion cyclotron resonance plasma heating

Journal Article · Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990 · Physics of Fluids B; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.859257· OSTI ID:7036636

Friedland, L ^[1]

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1. Center for Plasma Physics, Raach Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel (IL)

The transmission of the fast Alfven wave in second harmonic ion cyclotron resonance heating of a deuterium--hydrogen (minority) plasma is analyzed in a general three-dimensional magnetogeometry. The approach is based on the congruent reduction of the Hermitian, anisotropic pressure fluid plasma model. The unreduced, 17th-order, slow-amplitude transport equation, characterizing the problem of interest, is systematically reduced to the fourth-order irreducible transport system describing the coupling of the fast wave to the resonant components of the anisotropic pressure plasma model. This system yields a compact expression for the fast wave transmission coefficient in a general geometry and arbitrary direction of propagation of the incident wave.

• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 7036636
• Journal Information: Physics of Fluids B; (USA), Vol. 2:6, Issue 6; ISSN 0899-8221
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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