Anatomy of a Field-Reversed Configuration
October 2019 | L. Steinhauer | APS-DPP | Poster
Tangibles” = inputs to Grushenka: what can be measured. Intangibles” = outputs from Grushenka: what can’t be directlymeasured
Non-Perturbative Measurements of Low and Null Magnetic Field in High Temperature Plasmas Using the Hanle Effect
October 2019 | Richard Ignace | APS-DPP | Poster
Direct and local measurements of internal magnetic field are highly desirable in TAE’s fusion plasma experiments to characterize the magnetic field profile
1-Dimensional Equilibrium Reconstruction for C-2W Plasma
October 2019 | Sangeeta Gupta | APS-DPP | Poster
1-Dimension equilibrium is reconstructed using experimental plasma profiles, 1-D Ampere’s law, and Kinetic Monte Carlo fast ions.
Numerical Model Developments for Turbulent Transport in C-2W
October 2019 | Calvin K. Lau | APS-DPP | Poster
Electrostatic particle-in-cell turbulence code. Nonlinear simulations show inverse cascade in SOL. Fluctuations spread from unstable SOL to stable core…
Integrated Modeling of Stability and Transport of FRC Plasmas
October 2019 | S.A. Dettrick | APS-DPP | Poster
Analysis – interpretive modeling of experiment. Infer plasma parameters and profiles from diagnostics. Estimate transport coefficients and confinement times
A Current-Vorticity Model for FRC plasma control
October 2019 | S. A. Galkin | APS-DPP | Poster
A current-vorticity MHD model and code have been developed for FRC plasma control applications in the C-2W device [1]. The model uses a flexible filtering…
Fusion reactivity of the pB11 plasma revisited
June 2019 | S.V. Putvinski | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
Fusion reactivity for the pB11 fuel has been reassessed for magnetic confinement devices. This study is based on two factors: new measurements of the fusion reaction cross-sections and an accounting of the kinetic effects that lead to the increase of the number of protons at higher energies (with respect to a pure Maxwellian).
Integrated Modeling of Stability and Transport of FRC Plasmas
April 2019 | A.Necas | 2019 Sherwood Fusion Theory | Poster
TAE Technologies, Inc, has an active fusion plasma research program centered around the FRC (Field Reversed Configuration) magnetic topology and the existing C-2W (aka Norman) experiment.
Simulation of FRC Equilibrium and Global Stability
October 2018 | S. Dettrick | APS-DPP | Poster
Flexible control systems for all three of these actuators are available on the C-2W experiment, so we study their effects on FRC Equilibrium and Global Stability
Reconstructing FRC equilibria from experimental data
October 2018 | L. Steinhauer | APS-DPP | Poster
The magnetic structure of FRCs cannot be measured directly by existing diagnostics. A new tool “Grushenka” finds the structure based on magnetic measurements at the vessel wall.