Download or read book Measurements of Radial Profiles of Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating on the Tandem Mirror Experiment upgrade written by Steven Falabella and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measurements of Radial Profiles of Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating on the Tandem Mirror Experiment Upgrade written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small Radial Energy Analyzer (REA) was used on the Tandem Mirror Experiment-Upgrade (TMX-U), at Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory, to investigate the radial profiles of ion temperature, density, and plasma potential during Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ICRH). The probe has been inserted into the central-cell plasma at temperatures of 200 eV and densities of 3 x 1012cm/sup /minus 3// without damage to the probe, or major degradation of the plasma. This analyzer has indicated an increase in ion temperature from near 20 eV before ICRH to near 150 eV during ICRH, with about 60 kW of broadcast power. The REA measurements were cross-checked against other diagnostics on TMX-U and found to be consistent. The ion density measurement was compared to the line-density measured by microwave interferometry and found to agree within 10 to 20%. A radial intergral of n/sub i/T/sub i/ as measured by the REA shows good agreement with the diamagnetic loop measurement of plasma energy. The radial density profile is observed to broaden during the RF heating pulses, without inducing additional radial losses in the core plasma. The radial profile of plasma is seen to vary from axially peaked, to nearly flat as the plasma conditions carried over the series of experiments. To relate the increase in ion temperature to power absorbed by the plasma, a power balance as a function of radius was performed. The RF power absorbed is set equal to the sum of the losses during ICRH, minus those without ICRH. This method accounts for more than 70% of the broadcast power using a simple power balance model. The measured radial profile of the RF heating was compared to the calculations of two codes, ANTENA and GARFIELD, to test their effectiveness as predictors of power absorption profiles for TMX-U. 62 refs., 63 figs., 7 tabs.
Download or read book Power Deposition Calculations of Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating for Tandem Mirror Transport Codes written by David Gustav Braun and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating of Tandem Mirrors written by Miklos Porkolab and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tandem Mirror Experiment Upgrade TMX U Overview recent Events written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its construction and commissioning was completed in the winter of 1981, the Tandem Mirror Experiment Upgrade (TMX-U) has been conducting tandem mirror thermal barrier experiments. The work, following the fall of 1983 when strong plugging with thermal barriers was achieved, has been directed toward controlling radial transport and forming thermal barriers with high density and Beta. This paper describes the overall engineering component of these efforts. Major changes to the machine have included vacuum improvements, changes to the Electron and Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating systems (ECRH and ICRH), and the installation of a Plasma Potential Control system (PPC) for radial transport reduction. TMX-U operates an extensive diagnostics system that acquires data from 21 types of diagnostic instruments with more than 600 channels, in addition to 246 machine parameters. The changes and additions will be presented. The closing section of this paper will describe the initial study work for a proposed TMX-U octupole configured machine.
Download or read book Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating Studies in the Central Cell of the Phaedrus Tandem Mirror written by Brian McVey and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating of Tandem Mirrors written by Miklos Porkolab and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating in Tandem Mirrors written by Nguyen T. Lam and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating in Tandem Mirror Plug and Barrier Regions written by Nguyen T. Lam and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Fifteenth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating written by John Lohr and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings present the latest results in electron cyclotron emission, heating and current drive, with an emphasis on the physics and technology of Electron Cyclotron Emission, Electron Cyclotron Heating and Electron Cyclotron Current Drive applied to magnetic fusion research. The field is a key element in the development of fusion power and the ITER project now under construction.
Download or read book Electron and Ion Cyclotron Heating Calculations in the Tandem mirror Modeling Code MERTH written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To better understand and predict tandem-mirror experiments, we are building a comprehensive Mirror Equilibrium Radial Transport and Heating (MERTH) code. In this paper we first describe our method for developing the code. Then we report our plans for the installation of physics packages for electron- and ion-cyclotron heating of the plasma.
Download or read book Energy Research Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating of Tandem Mirrors at Relativistic Energies written by Bertram H. Hui and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful operation of a tandem mirror fusion reactor is critically dependent on electron cyclotron resonance heating. We find that for proof-of-principle parameters, this frequency is more than a factor of two lower than the nonrelativistic cyclotron frequency. Presently available sources can provide relatively high power at this frequency. (Author).
Download or read book Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating ECRH in the TMX Upgrade Tandem mirror Experiment written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Results are described of engineering tests of operation of two gyrotrons from one power supply, tests of waveguide components and antennae, antenna design, and the x-ray shielding concept. Finally, we describe considerations of interaction with other system components.
Download or read book Ion Cyclotron Radio Frequency Systems and Performance on the Tandem Mirror Experiment upgrade TMX U written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High power ion cyclotron radio frequency (ICRF) systems are now gaining greater attention than before as prime driver ion heating systems. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has installed a 200 kW high frequency (HF) transmitter system on its Tandem Mirror Experiment-Upgrade (TMX-U). This paper describes the system, antenna, controls, and monitoring apparatus. The transmitter operates into a high Q antenna installed in the central cell region of the experiment. It incorporates a dual-port feedback system to automatically adjust the transmitter's output power and allow the maximum consistent with the plasma loading of the antenna. Special techniques have been used to measure, in real-time, the dynamically changing loading values presented by the plasma. From the measurements, the antenna impedance can be optimized for specified plasma density.
Download or read book Microstability of the TMX Tandem Mirror Experiments written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tandem mirror device, an efficient source of warm ions, the central cell, is available for stabilization of ion loss-cone instabilities. These instabilities previously limited ion confinement in single-cell mirror experiments. In the simple tandem mirror device, TMX, the drift cyclotron loss-cone (DCLC) mode was stabilized by plasma flow from the central cell into the end cell. However, to enhance the central-cell confinement and provide MHD stability, neutral beams were injected perpendicular to the magnetic field, which resulted in the excitation in the end cell of the Alfven ion-cyclotron (AIC) instability driven by plasma pressure and velocity distribution anisotropy. In the thermal-barrier experiment, TMX-U, the end-cell beams were injected at a 45° angle to the magnetic field to produce a sloshing-ion distribution, which is required to form the thermal barrier and the plugging potential. Ion distributions created by oblique injection were stable to the AIC mode and to the midplane (minimum magnetic field location) DCLC mode. However, an ion loss-cone instability remained at an axial location just outside the outboard peak of the sloshing-ion axial density profile, which is the density peak closest to the end wall. This mode can enhance the sloshing-ion loss rate, particularly at the lower levels of electron-cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) used to form the thermal barrier. The stability to ion-cyclotron modes is critical to the performance of tandem mirrors and to designs for a mirror-based, high-fluence neutron source.
Download or read book Focusing Twist Reflector for Electron cyclotron Resonance Heating in the Tandem Mirror Experiment Upgrade written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twist reflector plate is described that linearly polarizes and focuses the TE/sub O1/ circular waveguide mode for heating hot electrons in the thermal barrier of the Tandem Mirror Experiment-Upgrade (TMX-U). The plate polarizing efficiency is 95%, and it has operated satisfactorily at 150 kW power level.
