November 2011 | A. Necas | APS-DPP | Poster
We report on progress made in using the NIMROD [2] code to simulate formation, translation and merging of FRCs in the C-2 experiment [1]. This sequence is simulated in 2D and 3D, with and without inclusion of the Hall term.
November 2011 | T. Roche | APS-DPP | Poster
An optical tomography system has been developed and implemented in the Flux Coil Generated Field Reversed Configuration (FCG-FRC) at TAE Technologies.
November 2011 | E. Ruskov | APS-DPP | Poster
High required time resolution resolves in high required modulation frequency and high IF: need very fast data acquisition.
November 2011 | X. Sun | APS-DPP | Poster
Edge biasing has long been used in various fusion devices to actively control the plasma potential profile in order to suppress radial transport by decorrelating density and potential fluctuations through flow shear.
November 2011 | M. Thompson | APS-DPP | Poster
In any magnetic plasma confinement device, it is advantageous to limit hot-ion loss through charge-exchange with cold neutral gas by minimizing the gas density near the plasma.
November 2011 | E. Trask | APS-DPP | Poster
The TAE Technologies C-2 experimental system[1] is a linear device consisting of two separate multi-coil theta-pinch formation sections and a central confinement vessel.
November 2011 | M. Tuszewski | APS-DPP | Poster
New high performance FRC (HPF) regime. HPF includes plasma gun and neutral beams. Plasma gun provides E, Control via Edge Layer.
October 2011 | A. Smirnov | PPPL Seminar | Presentation
The merged FRCs in C-2 are suitable for high powered neutral beam injection (NBI) experiments. A versatile, robust and highly reliable NBI system was built.
September 2011 | S. Dettrick | ICNSP | Poster
We examine the use of the Thrust library [1] to accelerate on the GPU a Monte Carlo code used for Neutral Beam Injection in FRCs.
August 2011 | L. Galeotti | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
Axisymmetric equilibrium of a magnetically confined plasma with multiple ion species is considered. To describe hot plasmas with isothermal surfaces, we adopt a formulation consistent with zero poloidal ion flow.