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Author: Sean A Dettrick
Requested Type: Pre-Selected Invited
Submitted: 2016-02-15 13:48:36
Co-authors: D. C. Barnes, E. Belova, F. Ceccherini, D. P. Fulton, L. Galeotti, S. Gupta, H. Monkhorst, Y. Mok, A. Necas, M. Onofri, L. Steinhauer, T. Tajima, and the TAE Team
Contact Info:
Tri Alpha Energy
P.O. Box 7010
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688-7
USA
Abstract Text:
How do biased, beam driven FRCs work? We will try to answer this question while giving an overview of the FRC research program at Tri Alpha Energy (TAE) from a theory and simulation perspective. The C-2U experiment [1] presents a unique combination of challenges to simulation: a dynamic formation process, high beta (~85% average) and large ion orbits, neutral beam heating and energetic particles, strong coupling of core transport with the SOL, and electrode biasing of the SOL. These challenges have been addressed with a suite of codes, including extended MHD simulation of dynamic theta-pinch formation, translation, and collision; Monte Carlo simulation of Neutral Beam heating; 3D hybrid PIC code simulation of the influence of neutral beams and end-biasing on macrostability; 3D PIC simulation of turbulent transport; PIC simulation of beam driven plasma modes; hybrid fluid/particle transport simulation of heating, fueling, and current drive; kinetic simulation of parallel electron transport in the Scrape Off Layer; and neutral particle transport. Quantitative comparisons with the C-2U experiment will be made for each of these topics.
[1] M.W. Binderbauer et al., Phys. Plasmas 22, 056110 (2015).
Comments:
This is an overview of ~5 years of the theory program at Tri Alpha Energy, hence request oral. If oral not possible, then please place as 4th poster after 1) F. Ceccherini, 2) S. Gupta, 3) M. Onofri