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…
October 2019 | M. E. Griswold | APS-DPP | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called Norman), record breaking, advanced beam-driven field reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas are produced and sustained in steady state
October 2019 | I. ALLFREY | APS-DPP | Poster
In TAE Technologies’ current experimental device, C-2W (also called “Norman”) [1], record breaking, advanced beam-driven field reversed configuration
October 2019 | R. M. Magee | APS-DPP | Poster
Measurements of fusion products in the C-2U and C-2W1 FRCs reveal the dynamics of the highest energy fusile ions in the plasma.
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
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…
June 2019 | C.K. Lau | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
Recent local simulations of the field-reversed configuration (FRC) have reported drift-wave stability in the core and instability in the scrape-off layer (SOL). However, experimental measurements indicate the existence of fluctuations in both FRC core and SOL, with much lower amplitude fluctuations measured in the core.
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).
June 2019 | T. Asai | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
Collisional merging formation of field-reversed configurations (FRCs) at super Alfvénic velocity have been successfully initiated in the FAT-CM device at Nihon University. It is experimentally evidenced that the quiescent FRC profile is formed in a self-organizational manner after distructive disturbances by the super Alfvénic collision of two translated magnetized plasmoids.
As CEO of TAE Technologies, the world’s largest private fusion reactor company, Michl Binderbauer is one of those who believes that fusion power could be on the near horizon – and is using artificial intelligence co-developed with Google to help make it a reality.