October 2016 | Xiaokang Yang | APS-DPP | Poster
The rotating magnetic field-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC), such as Rotamak or PFRC experiment, was recently proposed as a test bench at TAE Technologies to experimentally pioneer the study of microwave electron heating.
October 2016 | Calvin K Lau | APS-DPP | Poster
Advanced beam-driven FRCs at TAE have lifetimes of milliseconds (transport-limited regimes). Local GTC simulations of realistic C-2 equilibrium find…
October 2016 | Niko Rath | APS-DPP | Poster
Many Q2D simulations are chopped into even more independent snapshots, forming a “pool” of “states”.
October 2016 | A. Necas | APS-DPP | Poster
Robust BUT non-destructive instability during beam injection. Predicted modes for various beta. Experimental observations consistent with modeling.
October 2016 | D.P. Fulton | APS-DPP | Poster
5 ms sustainment on C-2U heralds transport limited confinement in advanced beam driven FRCs.
June 2016 | Niko Rath | AIP Publishing | Paper
We show that in a field-reversed-configuration, the plasma is unstable to either transverse or axial rigid displacement, but never to both.