November 2021 | C. Deng | APS-DPP 2021 | Poster
In the TAE Technologies current experimental device, C-2W (also called “Norman”), record breaking, advanced beam-driven FRC plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state utilizing variable energy neutral beams, advanced divertors, end bias electrodes, and…
October 2021 | S.A. Dettrick | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
The advanced beam-driven FRC is a field reversed configuration (FRC) with the addition of neutral beam (NB) injection, electrode biasing, and magnetic expander divertors.
August 2021 | S. Dettrick | OS2021 | Presentation
Equilibrium with large kinetic ion population
• Global Stability properties in presence of neutral beams
• Perpendicular Transport due to kinetic microturbulence
December 2020 | L. Schmitz | HTPD 2020 | Poster
A four channel DBS system delivers fluctuation data and ExB velocity covering the entire shot. ExB velocity measurements confirm strong ExB
November 2020 | L. Schmitz | APS-DPP | Presentation
C-2W is a beam-driven, sustained field-reversed configuration that allows systematic transport studies
November 2020 | C. Lau | APS-DPP | Poster
Goal: understand confinement in current devices; predict confinement in future devices