October 2023 | B. Nicks | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
The Alfven-ion cyclotron (AIC) mode is an instability that can be driven in magnetized plasmas with anisotropic pressure. Its chief deleterious effect is the driving of enhanced pitch-angle scattering of ions
October 2023 | F. Ceccherini | IAEA-FEC 2023 | Poster
Plasma heating through fast waves, from ion cyclotron and high harmonic fast wave (HHFW) resonances up to helicon regime, represents a key topic in the development of a nuclear fusion device.
August 2023 | S. Gupta | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
The formation of electrostatic potential in an expanding magnetic field divertor is numerically simulated using a kinetic model. As theoretically expected, the electrostatic potential is formed in the expanding magnetic field…
May 2022 | R. Groenewald | Sherwood 2023 | Poster
Enable steady-state simulations of the FRC reactor to study global stability and particle transport.
May 2022 | F. Ceccherini | Sherwood 2023 | Poster
HHFW in FRC configurations requires a hot-plasma approach that can be investigated through the RFP.
First results show that energy deposition is expected to depend
strongly on parallel refractive index.
November 2022 | M. Jimenez | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Kinetic effects in plasma flow due to a finite ion temperature and ion reflections in a converging–diverging magnetic nozzle are investigated
with collisionless quasineutral hybrid simulations with kinetic ions and isothermal Boltzmann electrons.