Modeling of Alfven wave heating and current drive in Phaedrus-T
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)
Theoretical analysis and numerical modeling of Alfven wave plasma heating and current drive experiments on the Phaedrus-T tokamak is presented. The full-wave hot-plasma code, ALFA, is used in these calculations. The code features toroidal geometry and poloidal magnetic field effects. It is essentially a 2D full-wave code, but can obtain a 3D picture of RF wave fields and absorbed power via Fourier composition of solutions for many toroidal modes. The stand-alone current diffusion code, DIFF, is intergrated with ALFA to model the transient processes of current drive in the Phaedrus-T tokamak. Comparison of numerical calculations to experimental data is given thus permitting a deeper understanding of AWCD processes. {copyright} {ital 1996 American Institute of Physics.}
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-88ER53264
- OSTI ID:
- 285380
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9505105-; ISSN 0094-243X; TRN: 96:020032
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 355, Issue 1; Conference: 11. topical conference on radio frequency in plasmas, Palm Springs, CA (United States), 17-19 May 1995; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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