Blended Kinetic Simulations of Transport in C-2W
November 2020 | C. Lau | APS-DPP | Poster
Goal: understand confinement in current devices; predict confinement in future devices
Simulation of Equilibrium, Stability, and Transport in Advanced FRCs
November 2020 | S. Dettrick | APS-DPP | Poster
Analysis – interpretive modeling of C-2W experiment. Simulation – predictive modeling of experiment.
Beam-Driven Ion-Cyclotron Modes in FRC
October 2019 | B. S. Nicks | APS-DPP | Poster
C-2U experiment: beam-driven FRC. Proton beams injected into deuterium plasma. Fast proton injection greatly enhanced DD fusion rate
Numerical Model Developments for Turbulent Transport in C-2W
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…
Cross-separatrix simulations of turbulent transport in the field-reversed configuration
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.