The continuous operation of a tokamak fusion reactor requires, among other things, a means
of providing continuously the toroidal current. Such operation is preferred to the …

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The Rosenbluth form for the collision operator for a weakly relativistic plasma is derived. The
formalism adopted by Antonsen and Chu can then be used to calculate the efficiency of …

A functional form is presented for the efficiency of current drive in toroidal geometry with
waves at frequencies below the electron cyclotron frequency. By fitting constants in order to …

A description of a bounce‐averaged Fokker–Planck quasilinear model for the kinetic
description of tokamak plasmas is presented. The nonlinear collision and quasilinear …

Electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD) experiments on the DIII-D tokamak are solidifying
the physics basis for localized, off-axis current drive, the goal being to validate a predictive …

The paper presents calculations of the efficiency of fast wave current drive at reactor-like
densities and temperatures, including toroidal effects. Accessibility and competitive …

Currents driven by radio frequency (rf) waves in the interior of magnetic islands can stabilize
deleterious tearing modes in tokamaks. Present analyses of stabilization assume that the …

Certain aspects of the generation of steady-state currents by electron cyclotron waves are
explored. A numerical solution of the Fokker-Planck equation is used to verify the theory of …

A Fokker-Planck treatment of the plasma electron current driven by radio-frequency waves is
presented for the electron cyclotron and Landau damping wave absorption mechanisms …