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 ...

Low pressure ~,10 mTorr! inductively coupled plasma sources are being developed for etching and deposition of semiconductors and metals. In models for these devices, plasma dynamics are typically coupled to the electromagnetic fields through Ohm’s law, which implies that collisional heating is the dominant power transfer mechanism. In this article, we describe an algorithm to couple plasma dyna...

Electron heating regime using with radio-frequency waves in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) has been investigated in helical magnetic configuration. Mode-conversion scenario was applied to the LHD plasmas. When the wave frequency is change to be lower than that in the standard ICRF heating (minority ion heating) condition, the resonance layers are moved away to the peripheral regi...

A microwave discharge ion source (MDIS) operating at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of INFN, Catania has been used to compare the traditional electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) heating with an innovative mechanisms of plasma ignition based on the electrostatic Bernstein waves (EBW). EBW are obtained via the inner plasma electromagnetic-to-electrostatic wave conversion and they are absorbed by...

laser fusion simulations are carried out for dt and d- he pellets by using a hydrodynamic code including heating from all charged reaction products and neutrons. it is shown that the inclusion of the side reactions and heating from all reaction products in the fuel pellets have an appreciable effect on the plasma temperature, the icf drive energy requirement, fusion gain and the ignition condit...

Estimating the level of alpha heating and determining the onset of the burning plasma regime is essential to finding the path towards thermonuclear ignition. In a burning plasma, the alpha heating exceeds the external input energy to the plasma. Using a simple model of the implosion, it is shown that a general relation can be derived, connecting the burning plasma regime to the yield enhancemen...