Whole Device Modelingof Compact Tori: Stability and Transport Modeling of C-2W
October 2017 | APS-DPP | Poster
TAE is working towards catalysing a community-wide collaboration to develop a Whole Device Model (WDM) of Compact Tori.
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Drift-wave stability in the field-reversed configuration
August 2017 | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Gyrokinetic simulations of C-2-like field-reversed configuration (FRC) find that electrostatic drift- waves are locally stable in the core. The stabilization mechanisms include finite Larmor radius effects, magnetic well (negative grad-B), and fast electron short circuit effects.
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Suppressed ion-scale turbulence in a hot high-beta plasma
December 2016 | Nature Communications | Paper
An economic magnetic fusion reactor favours a high ratio of plasma kinetic pressure to magnetic pressure in a well-confined, hot plasma with low thermal losses across the confining magnetic field.
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Positional stability of field-reversed-configurations in the presence of resistive walls
June 2016 | 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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Control of ion gyroscale fluctuations via electrostatic biasing and sheared E×B flow in the C-2 field reversed configuration
March 2016 | AIP Conference Proceedings | Paper
Control of radial particle and thermal transport is instrumental for achieving and sustaining well-confined high-β plasma in a Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC). Radial profiles of low frequency ion gyro-scale density fluctuations (0.5 ≤ kρs ≤ 40), consistent with drift- or drift-interchange modes, have been measured in the scrape-off layer (SOL) and core of the C-2 Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC), together with the toroidal ExB velocity.
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Robustness of waves with a high phase velocity
March 2016 | AIP Conference Proceedings | Paper
Norman Rostoker pioneered research of (1) plasma-driven accelerators and (2) beam-driven fusion reactors. The collective acceleration, coined by Veksler, advocates to drive above-ionization plasma waves by an electron beam to accelerate ions. The research on this, among others, by the Rostoker group incubated the idea that eventually led to the birth of the laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA), by which a large and robust accelerating collective fields may be generated in plasma in which plasma remains robust and undisrupted.
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Achieving a long-lived high-beta plasma state by energetic beam injection
April 2015 | Nature Communications | Paper
Developing a stable plasma state with high-beta (ratio of plasma to magnetic pressures) is of critical importance for an economic magnetic fusion reactor.
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Rotational stability a long field-reversed configuration
February 2014 | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Rotationally driven modes of long systems with dominantly axial magnetic field are considered. We apply the incompressible model and order axial wavenumber small. A recently developed gyro-viscous model is incorporated. A one-dimensional equilibrium is assumed, but radial profiles are arbitrary.
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Rotational stability of a long field-reversed configuration
February 2014 | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Rotationally driven modes of long systems with dominantly axial magnetic field are considered. An
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