Analysis of Minority RF Heated Tokamak Plasmas
Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 8 / Number 1P2A / July 1985 / Pages 641-644
Plasma Engineering / Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40112
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The use of the compressional hydromagnetic (fast wave) mode is examined with respect to heating a minority helium-3 species in a fully catalyzed deuterium tokamak. In this paper we develop a rapid solution to analyze the two dimensional, steady state Fokker-Planck equation, with quasi-linear ICRF heating terms. This finite element solution for the minority helium-3 distribution function develops a high, anisotropic in the perpendicular velocity direction, energy tail as a result of ICRH. The rapidity of this method of solution makes it possible to conduct parametric studies which are not possible with other codes.
