C-2U Experimental Transport Analysis
October 2016 | Erik Trask | APS-DPP | Poster
Upgrades of the experimental facility at TAE Technologies have led to record Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) performance on the C-2U device.
Measurements of Energy Loss in the Scrape-Off Layer of C-2U
October 2016 | M.E. Griswold | APS-DPP | Poster
An end loss analyzer system (ELA) was developed to study thermal transport on the open field lines that surround the advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) core of the C-2U experiment.
Transport studies in high-performance field reversed configuration plasmas
May 2016 | S. Gupta | Physics of Plasmas | Paper
A significant improvement of field reversed configuration (FRC) lifetime and plasma confinement times in the C-2 plasma, called High Performance FRC regime, has been observed with neutral beam injection (NBI), improved edge stability, and better wall conditioning.
Transport simulations of the C-2 and C-2U Field Reversed Configurations with the Q2D code
April 2016 | Marco Onofri | Sherwood | Poster
The Q2D code is a 2D MHD code, which includes a neutral fluid and separate ion and electron temperatures, coupled with a 3D Monte Carlo code, which is used to calculate source terms due to neutral beams.
Control of ion gyroscale fluctuations via electrostatic biasing and sheared E×B flow in the C-2 field reversed configuration
March 2016 | L. Schmitz | AIP Conference Proceedings | Paper
Control of radial particle and thermal transport is instrumental for achieving and sustaining well-confined high-β plasma in a Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC). Radial profiles of low frequency ion gyro-scale density fluctuations (0.5 ≤ kρs ≤ 40), consistent with drift- or drift-interchange modes, have been measured in the scrape-off layer (SOL) and core of the C-2 Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC), together with the toroidal ExB velocity.