FAST WAVE HEATING EXPERIMENTS IN THE ION-CYCLOTRON RANGE OF FREQUENCIES ON ATF

被引:19
作者
KWON, M
SHEPARD, TD
GOULDING, RH
THOMAS, CE
COLCHIN, RJ
WADE, MR
JAEGER, EF
CARTER, MD
BAITY, FW
BATCHELOR, DB
BELL, GL
BELL, JD
BIGELOW, TS
CRUME, EC
ENGLAND, AC
GLOWIENKA, JC
HIROE, S
HORTON, LD
HOFFMAN, DJ
ISLER, RC
LANGLEY, RA
LEE, DK
MURAKAMI, M
PAINTER, SL
RASMUSSEN, DA
SWAIN, DW
UCKAN, T
WILGEN, JB
WING, WR
机构
[1] GEORGIA INST TECHNOL,ATLANTA,GA 30332
[2] MARTIN MARIETTA ENERGY SYST INC,DIV COMP & TELECOMMUN,OAK RIDGE,TN 37831
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D O I
10.1088/0029-5515/32/7/I12
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Fast wave heating experiments in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) were performed on target plasmas produced by 350 kW of electron cyclotron heating at 53 GHz and also by neutral beam injection in the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF). Various heating regimes were investigated in the frequency range between 9.2 MHz and 28.8 MHz with magnetic fields of 0.95 T and 1.9 T on axis. The nominal pulse lengths of up to 200 kW RF power were in the range between 100 and 400 ms. Data from spectroscopy, loading measurements, and edge RF and Langmuir probes were used to characterize the RF induced effects on the ATF plasma. In the hydrogen minority regime at low plasma density, large suprathermal ion tails were observed with a neutral particle analyser. At high density (n(e)BAR greater-than-or-equal-to 5.0 x 10(13) cm-3) substantial increases in antenna loading were observed, but ICRF power was insufficient to produce definitive heating results. A two-dimensional RF heating code, ORION, and a Fokker-Planck code, RFTRANS, were used to simulate these experiments. A simulation of future high power, higher density experiments in ATF indicates improved bulk heating results due to the improved loading and more efficient thermalization of the minority tail.
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页数:16
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