November 2020 | F. Ceccherini | APS-DPP | Poster
TAE Technologies RF code, RF-Pisa, has been upgraded to study the transfer of momentum and angular momentum from RF waves to plasma species in an FRC configuration.
November 2020 | S. Dettrick | APS-DPP | Poster
Analysis – interpretive modeling of C-2W experiment. Simulation – predictive modeling of experiment.
November 2020 | B.S. Nicks | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
In the scrape-off-layer (SOL) of a field-reversed configuration, neutral beam injection can drive
modes in the vicinity of the ion-cyclotron frequency
November 2020 | L. Steinhauer | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
A reconstructor tool is developed for fast computation of fully two-dimensional equilibria of FRCs that are consistent with routine magnetic data from experiments.
October 2020 | C. Scott | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
Energetic beams excite semi-repetitive modes (‘staircase mode’) in the field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma.
August 2020 | C. Lau | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
A quasi-neutral blended drift-Lorentz particle model of the field-reversed configuration (FRC) has been developed and implemented in the particle-in-cell code named ANC.