Simulation of drift wave instability in field-reversed configurations using global magnetic geometry
October 2016 | D.P. Fulton | APS-DPP | Poster
5 ms sustainment on C-2U heralds transport limited confinement in advanced beam driven FRCs.
Performance improvement of magnetized coaxial plasma gun by magnetic circuit on a bias coil
October 2016 | T. Edo | APS-DPP | Poster
A magnetized coaxial plasmoid accelerator has been utilized for compact torus (CT) injection to refuel into fusion reactor core plasma.
Neutral Beam Injection System for the C-2U Field Reversed Configuration Experiment
October 2016 | Alex Dunaevsky | APS-DPP | Poster
C-2U Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) experiment proved substantial reduction in turbulence-driven losses via tangential neutral beam injection (NBI) coupled with electrically biased plasma guns at the plasma ends.
Simulation Overview of High-Performance Beam-Driven Field Reversed Configurations
October 2016 | S. Dettrick | APS-DPP | Poster
Simulation of High Performance Beam Driven FRC shows that hot FRC is formed by thermalization of fast colliding FRCs.
Compact Toroid Injection Fueling on a Large-sized Field-Reversed Configuration
October 2016 | Tomohiko Asai | IAEA-FEC | Poster
A repetitively driven compact toroid (CT) injector has been developed for large-sized field-reversed configuration (FRC) facility of the C-2/C-2U primarily for refueling.
Achievement of Field-Reversed Configuration Plasma Sustainment via 10 MW Neutral-Beam Injection on the C-2U Device
October 2016 | Hiroshi Gota | IAEA-FEC | Poster
The world’s largest compact-toroid device, C-2, has been upgraded to C-2U at TAE Technologies to achieve sustainment of field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas by neutral-beam (NB) injection (NBI) and edge biasing, and the C-2U experiment is characterized by the following key system upgrades.