[HTML][HTML] 20 years of research on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak

M Greenwald, A Bader, S Baek, M Bakhtiari… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The object of this review is to summarize the achievements of research on the Alcator C-Mod
tokamak [Hutchinson et al., Phys. Plasmas 1, 1511 (1994) and Marmar, Fusion Sci. Technol …

Recent progress in modeling ICRF-edge plasma interactions with application to ASDEX Upgrade

W Zhang, R Bilato, V Bobkov, A Cathey… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper summarizes recent progress in modeling the interaction between ion cyclotron
range of frequency (ICRF) waves and edge plasma with application to ASDEX Upgrade. The …

Validation metrics for turbulent plasma transport

C Holland - Physics of Plasmas, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Developing accurate models of plasma dynamics is essential for confident predictive
modeling of current and future fusion devices. In modern computer science and engineering …

Verifying raytracing/Fokker–Planck lower-hybrid current drive predictions with self-consistent full-wave/Fokker–Planck simulations

SJ Frank, JP Lee, JC Wright, IH Hutchinson… - Journal of Plasma …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Raytracing/Fokker–Planck (FP) simulations used to model lower-hybrid current drive
(LHCD) often fail to reproduce experimental results, particularly when LHCD is weakly …

Experimental and modeling uncertainties in the validation of lower hybrid current drive

FM Poli, PT Bonoli, M Chilenski… - Plasma Physics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This work discusses sources of uncertainty in the validation of lower hybrid wave current
drive simulations against experiments, by evolving self-consistently the magnetic equilibrium …

An assessment of full-wave effects on Maxwellian lower-hybrid wave damping

SJ Frank, JC Wright, IH Hutchinson… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Lower-hybrid current drive (LHCD) actuators are important components of modern day
fusion experiments as well as proposed fusion reactors. However, simulations of LHCD …

Modelling of the EAST lower-hybrid current drive experiment using GENRAY/CQL3D and TORLH/CQL3D

C Yang, PT Bonoli, JC Wright, BJ Ding… - Plasma Physics and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The coupled GENRAY-CQL3D code has been used to do systematic ray-tracing
and Fokker–Planck analysis for EAST Lower Hybrid wave Current Drive (LHCD) …

[HTML][HTML] Simulating energetic ions and enhanced fusion rates from ion-cyclotron resonance heating with a full-wave/Fokker–Planck model

SJ Frank, JC Wright, P Rodriguez-Fernandez… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Reproducing fast-ion enhanced fusion rates from ion-cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) in
tokamaks requires the self-consistent coupling of a full-wave solver and a Fokker–Planck …

Experimental measurements and numerical modeling of fast-ion distributions in the Alcator C-Mod Tokamak

AC Bader - 2012 - dspace.mit.edu
In this thesis we discuss measurements and modeling of minority heated fast-ion
distributions in the Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequencies (ICRF) on the Alcator C-Mod …

A quasi-local inhomogeneous dielectric tensor for arbitrary distribution functions

SJ Frank, JC Wright, PT Bonoli - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Treatments of plasma waves usually assume homogeneity, but the parallel gradients
ubiquitous in plasmas can modify wave propagation and absorption. We derive a quasilocal …