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.
October 2023 | J.A. Romero | IAEA-FEC 2023 | Presentation
C-2W holds a high beta FRC plasma in an easily accessible linear device. Plasma is elongated to improve performance, resulting in axial instability. Feedback control stabilizes and sustains the long plasma in steady state.
October 2023 | H. Gota | IAEA-FEC 2023 | Poster
The NB power-supply system has recently been upgraded to extend the pulse length from 30 ms to 40 ms, which allows for a longer plasma lifetime thus better characterization and further enhancement of FRC performance.
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.