The TAE Technologies modeling group has won a 2018 US Department of Energy INCITE (Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment) award on the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s Theta supercomputer. The award is for 31MCH (million core hours), which is equivalent to 100MCH on ALCF’s Blue Gene supercomputer, Mira, and will be used to accelerate our research in creating clean fusion energy.
We are proud to now announce that this week we have achieved colliding and merging of field-reverse configurations (FRCs) on Norman, which is another critical marker on our path to success.
November 2017 | H. Gota | Nuclear Fusion | Paper
The TAE Technologies experimental program has demonstrated reliable field-reversed configuration (FRC) formation and sustainment, driven by fast ions via high-power neutral-beam (NB) injection.
Our explainer video will help illustrate the work we’re doing with field-reverse configurations (FRCs), and offer insights into how we operate Norman.
October 2017 | X. Yang | EPJ Web Conference | Paper
Numerous efforts have been made at Tri-Alpha Energy (TAE) to theoretically explore the physics of microwave electron heating in field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas. For the fixed 2D profiles of plasma density and temperature for both electrons and thermal ions and equilibrium field of the C-2U machine, simulations with GENRAY-C ray-tracing code have been conducted for the ratios of / ci[D] in the range of 6 – 20.
October 2017 | T. Roche | APS-DPP | Poster
Monitoring the complete magnetic evolution of the plasma is essential for understanding the system’s dynamics. Over 1000 B-field signals are monitored to provide both post-shot analysis data and data for an advanced active feedback system under development
October 2017 | T. Edo | APS-DPP | Poster
A magnetized coaxial plasma gun (MCPG) is a device used to generate a compact toroid (CT), which has a spheromak-like configuration.
October 2017 | B. Scott Nicks | APS-DPP | Poster
Experiments indicate beam-driven mode in the vicinity of the ion cyclotron frequency ?=1 seen at low ?—conditions typically found in C2U FRC scrape-off layer and outbound of separatrix.
October 2017 | S. Gupta | APS-DPP | Poster
C-2W goal is to increase electron temperature by reducing electron heat losses using expander divertor. FRC core is surrounded by the open field mirror system.
October 2017 | Sean Dettrick | APS-DPP | Poster
TAE is working towards catalysing a community-wide collaboration to develop a Whole Device Model (WDM) of Compact Tori.