Investigations of ICRF heating scenarios on EAST plasma
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چکیده
For designing scenarios with optimal ICRF performances in EAST tokamak plasma, the fast wave propagation and absorption should be first investigated. Here several possible Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ICRH) scenarios have been explored are minority heating of hydrogen in a deuterium plasma and mode conversion heating of He in a deuterium plasma. The TORIC code has been used to simulate the heating. TORIC solves the finite Larmor radius wave equations in the ion cyclotron frequency range in an arbitrary axisymmetric toroidal geometry. The fast wave propagation/absorption characteristics, power partitions among plasma species are analyzed.
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