Oct 2017 | Research Library, Posters, Fusion Energy, Fusion Research, Fusion Science, Fusion Technology, Plasma Research, Simulation, Transport, Turbulence
October 2017 | Jian Bao | APS-DPP | Poster
Motivation: A high performance field reversed configuration has been sustained for 5ms, which is beyond the turbulent transport time scale.
Oct 2017 | Research Library, Posters, Experiment, Fueling, Fusion Energy, Fusion Research, Fusion Science, Fusion Technology, Plasma Research
October 2017 | I. Allfrey | APS-DPP | Poster
C-2 and C-2U experiments [1] have used magnetized coaxial plasma guns (MCPG) to inject compact toroids (CTs) for refueling the long-lived advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma [2].
Oct 2017 | Research Library, Posters, Confinement, Experiment, Formation, Fusion Energy, Fusion Research, Fusion Science, Fusion Technology, Overview, Performance, Plasma Research
October 2017 | H. Gota | APS-DPP | Poster
Tri Alpha Energy’s research has been devoted to producing a high temperature, stable, long-lived field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma state by neutral-beam injection (NBI) and edge biasing/control.
Oct 2017 | Research Library, Posters, Diagnostics, Experiment, Fusion Energy, Fusion Research, Fusion Science, Fusion Technology, Plasma Profiles, Plasma Research
October 2017 | Gabriel Player | APS-DPP | Poster
An attempt to experimentally determine electron heating due to neutral beam injection highlighted a diagnostic gap – lack of time resolution on single-shot Thomson measurements.
Oct 2017 | Research Library, Posters, Fusion Energy, Fusion Research, Fusion Science, Fusion Technology, Heating, Plasma Research, Theory, Waves
October 2017 | Francesco Ceccherini | APS-DPP | Poster
The Tri Alpha Energy (TAE) code RF-Pisa is a Finite Larmor Radius (FLR) full wave code developed through the years to study RF heating in the Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) in both the ion and electron cyclotron regimes.
Oct 2017 | Research Library, Posters, Experiment, Formation, Fusion Energy, Fusion Research, Fusion Science, Fusion Technology, Plasma Research
October 2017 | Erik Trask | APS-DPP | Poster
Circuit is decoupled from reversal, with improved pulsed power reliability
– Ionization percentage is ~100%, with flat radial distribution
– High power circuits are implemented on C-2W (Norman)