Alfven cyclotron instability and ion cyclotron emission

Alfven Cyclotron Instability and Ion Cyclotron Emission

Two-dimensional solutions of compressional Alfven eigenmodes (CAE) are studied in the cold plasma approximation. For finite inverse aspect ratio tokamak plasmas the two-dimensional eigenmode envelope is localized at the low magnetic field side with the radial and poloidal localization on the order of u / f i and u/*, respectively, where rn is the dominant poloidal mode number. Charged fusion pr...

In Ion-cyclotron Resonance Heating

We determine the conditions under which the damping of the fast Alfven wave, used in the heating of tokamak plasmas, can be described by the geometrical optics approximations. Also, for these conditions, we derive an analytical formula which explicitly determines the amount of energy which is damped onto the plasma particles by the fast wave. The conditions for the validity of the geometrical o...

Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source

Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source

Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source