Download or read book An Investigation of Full wave Effects on Lower hybrid Wave Propagation Absorption and Current Drive written by Samuel Frank (Nuclear engineer) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) has been used as a radio-frequency (RF) heating and current drive actuator in tokamaks for over 40 years. However, despite being one of the first experimentally demonstrated sources of RF current drive, LHCD has never been consistently predicted by numerical simulation using coupled raytracing Fokker-Planck (FP) models. One frequently cited source of this discrepancy is the breakdown of the WKB approximation raytracing is based upon and "full-wave" effects such as diffraction and interference which raytracing cannot resolve. However, this claim has never been thoroughly investigated. In this work, we replace the raytracing model for wave propagation and damping in LHCD simulations with TORLH, a semi-spectral full-wave model that directly solves for the wave fields in order to assess the validity of raytracing. Using groundbreaking TORLH simulations, we demonstrate that in most modern tokamak core scenarios LHCD raytracing/FP calculations closely match full-wave/FP results. We found that previous discrepancies between raytracing and full-wave results in many cases can be attributed to improper controls and a lack of self-consistency in the full-wave/FP iteration. Our simulations of Alcator C-Mod, DIII-D, and the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), suggest full wave effects are unlikely to be of particular importance in reactor-like scenarios where the LH wave is single pass damped, or even in modern experiments where the lower-hybrid wave is weakly damped.
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Download or read book Energy Research Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiannual, with semiannual and annual indexes. References to all scientific and technical literature coming from DOE, its laboratories, energy centers, and contractors. Includes all works deriving from DOE, other related government-sponsored information, and foreign nonnuclear information. Arranged under 39 categories, e.g., Biomedical sciences, basic studies; Biomedical sciences, applied studies; Health and safety; and Fusion energy. Entry gives bibliographical information and abstract. Corporate, author, subject, report number indexes.
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Download or read book Fusion Physics written by MITSURU KIKUCHI and published by International Atomic Energy. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans do not live by bread alone. Physically we are puny creatures with limited prowess, but with unlimited dreams. We see a mountain and want to move it to carve out a path for ourselves. We see a river and want to tame it so that it irrigates our fields. We see a star and want to fly to its planets to secure a future for our progeny. For all this, we need a genie who will do our bidding at a flip of our fingers. Energy is such a genie. Modern humans need energy and lots of it to live a life of comfort. In fact, the quality of life in different regions of the world can be directly correlated with the per capita use of energy [1.1–1.5]. In this regard, the human development index (HDI) of various countries based on various reports by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) [1.6] (Fig. 1.1), which is a parameter measuring the quality of life in a given part of the world, is directly determined by the amount of per capita electricity consumption. Most of the developing world (~5 billion people) is crawling up the UN curve of HDI versus per capita electricity consumption, from abysmally low values of today towards the average of the whole world and eventually towards the average of the developed world. This translates into a massive energy hunger for the globe as a whole. It has been estimated that by the year 2050, the global electricity demand will go up by a factor of up to 3 in a high growth scenario [1.7–1.9]. The requirements beyond 2050 go up even higher.
Download or read book Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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