Oct 2019 | Research Library, Posters, Diagnostics, Experiment, Fusion Energy, Fusion Research, Fusion Science, Fusion Technology, Instabilities, Plasma Profiles, Plasma Research
October 2019 | Roger J Smith | APS-DPP | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called “Norman”) [1], record breaking, advanced beam- driven field reversed configuration (FRC)
Jun 2019 | Research Library, Papers, Fusion Energy, Fusion Research, Fusion Science, Fusion Technology, Instabilities, Plasma Research, Simulation, Top Level, Transport, Turbulence
June 2019 | C.K. Lau | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
Recent local simulations of the field-reversed configuration (FRC) have reported drift-wave stability in the core and instability in the scrape-off layer (SOL). However, experimental measurements indicate the existence of fluctuations in both FRC core and SOL, with much lower amplitude fluctuations measured in the core.
Apr 2019 | Research Library, Posters, Confinement, Equilibrium, Fast Particles, Fusion Energy, Fusion Research, Fusion Science, Fusion Technology, Instabilities, Modeling, Overview, Plasma Research, Simulation, Stability, Theory, Transport, Turbulence
April 2019 | A.Necas | 2019 Sherwood Fusion Theory | Poster
TAE Technologies, Inc, has an active fusion plasma research program centered around the FRC (Field Reversed Configuration) magnetic topology and the existing C-2W (aka Norman) experiment.
Apr 2019 | Research Library, Papers, Fusion Energy, Fusion Research, Fusion Science, Fusion Technology, Instabilities, Plasma Research, Simulation
April 2019 | J. Bao | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Global properties of drift waves in the beam driven FRC, the C2-U device, in which the cen- tral FRC and its SOL plasma are connected with the formation sections and divertors.
Mar 2019 | Research Library, Papers, Experiment, Fast Particles, Featured Publications, Fusion Energy, Fusion Research, Fusion Science, Fusion Technology, Instabilities, Plasma Research, Top Level
March 2019 | R.M. Magee | Nature Physics | Paper
Efficiently heating a magnetically confined plasma to thermonuclear temperatures remains a central issue in fusion energy research. One well-established technique is to inject beams of neutral particles into the plasma, a process known as neutral beam injection.
Nov 2018 | Research Library, Posters, Equilibrium, Fusion Energy, Fusion Research, Fusion Science, Fusion Technology, Instabilities, Plasma Research, Simulation
October 2018 | F. Ceccherini | APS-DPP | Poster
Tilt instability in FRC plasmas1 is a well-known MHD phenomenon that has been extensively investigated over the years by different authors and an empirical scaling law