Hybrid Reconstruction of Field-Reversed Configurations
October 2016 | L. Steinhauer | APS-DPP | Poster
The C-2U facility at TAE Technologies creates an advanced, beam-driven FRC with large ion orbits. The plasma is sustained for > 5ms.
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FPIC Study of the n=1 Toroidal Mode in FRC Plasmas
October 2016 | Francesco Checcerini | APS-DPP | Poster
The goal of TAE’s experiments is to sustain through the of use of neutral beam heating and edge biasing an advanced beam-driven FRC for many milliseconds, i.e., well beyond the growth times of common instabilities.
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Simulations of Microwave Electron Heating on Field-Reversed Configuration Driven by Rotating Magnetic Field
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.
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Global simulation of field-reversed configuration using fully kinetic ion and drift kinetic electron
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…
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FRC equilibrium reconstruction by Bayesian evaluation of Monte Carlo transport simulations
October 2016 | Niko Rath | APS-DPP | Poster
Many Q2D simulations are chopped into even more independent snapshots, forming a “pool” of “states”.
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PIC simulation: Non-thermal distribution driven by NBI in high beta plasma
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.
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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.
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Positional stability of field-reversed-configurations in the presence of resistive walls
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.
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Transport studies in high-performance field reversed configuration plasmas
May 2016 | S. Gupta | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
A significant improvement of field reversed configuration (FRC) lifetime and plasma confinement times in the C-2 plasma, called High Performance FRC regime, has been observed with neutral beam injection (NBI), improved edge stability, and better wall conditioning.
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Gyrokinetic simulation of driftwave instability in field-reversed configuration
May 2016 | Daniel Fulton | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Following the recent remarkable progress in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability control in the C-2U advanced beam driven field-reversed configuration (FRC), turbulent transport has become one of the foremost obstacles on the path towards an FRC-based fusion reactor.
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