Self-Consistent Full-Wave / Fokker-Planck Calculations for Ion Cyclotron Heating in Non-Maxwellian Plasmas.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Jaeger, E. F.; Berry, L. A.; Harvey, R. W.; Myra, J. R.; Dumont, R. J.; Phillips, C. K.; Smithe, D. N.; Batchelor, D. B.; Bonoli, P. T.; Carter, M. D.; D'Azevedo, E.; D'Ippolito, D. A.; Wright, J. C.
- Source
- AIP Conference Proceedings. 2005, Vol. 787 Issue 1, p23-30. 8p.
- Subject
- *CYCLOTRONS
*PARTICLE accelerators
*DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory)
*ELECTRIC fields
*ELECTROMAGNETIC fields
*MATHEMATICAL functions
- Language
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
Self-consistent solutions for the wave electric field and particle distribution function are calculated for ion cyclotron heating in non-Maxwellian plasmas. The all-orders wave solver AORSA is generalized to treat non-thermal velocity distributions arising from fusion reactions, neutral beam injection, and wave driven diffusion in velocity space. Quasi-linear diffusion coefficients are derived directly from the wave electric fields and used to calculate velocity distribution functions with the CQL3D Fokker-Planck code. Self-consistent results are obtained by iterating the full-wave and Fokker-Planck solutions. © 2005 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]