• DocumentCode
    3199802
  • Title

    Advanced antenna for ICRF Plasma Heating and high frequency fast wave Current Drive in large fusion machines and ITER

  • Author

    Vdovin, V.L.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Nucl. Fusion, RRC Kurchatov Inst., Moscow, Russia
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    1-5 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We identify critical problems in Plasma Heating and Current Drive plasma-wave interaction physics and antennae concepts/technology for large fusion devices, including tokamaks, stellarators, mirror traps and constructing ITER for major methods like ECRF, ICRF, NBI. Analysis is based on experiments in large machines and modeling with 3D ICRF and ECRF recently developed full wave PSTELION and STELEC codes, including mode conversion, 3D in-port antennae ANPORT and ANTRES3 codes and theoretical evaluations. We outline identified problems resolution by: 1) elaborated 3D RF full wave codes modeling, 2) proposing High Frequency Fast Waves (HFFW) numerically modeled scheme for DIII-D and ITER, 3) considering principally new approach for ICRH/CD method, especially in conditions of transient ELM activity, making use toroidally broad multi loop Traveling Wave Antenna (TWA) concept which naturally incorporates antenna´s loops inter coupling through vacuum and plasma with elegant control of antenna-plasma coupling through a small generator frequency change to properly control toroidal wave´s spectrum during plasma edge density profile reconstruction.
  • Keywords
    Tokamak devices; antenna travelling wave arrays; high-frequency effects; plasma density; plasma heating; plasma toroidal confinement; stellarators; 3D ICRF; 3D RF full wave codes modeling; 3D in-port antennae ANPORT codes; ANTRES3 codes; DIII-D; ECRF; HFFW; ITER; NBI; TWA; antenna-plasma coupling; current drive plasma-wave interaction; high frequency fast wave current drive; large fusion machines; mirror traps; plasma edge density; plasma heating; stellarators; tokamaks; toroidally broad multiloop traveling wave antenna; Antenna theory; Frequency; Heating; Mirrors; Physics; Plasma density; Plasma devices; Plasma waves; Space technology; Tokamaks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fusion Engineering, 2009. SOFE 2009. 23rd IEEE/NPSS Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2635-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2636-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FUSION.2009.5226412
  • Filename
    5226412