On recent results in the modelling of neoclassical-tearing-mode stabilization via electron cyclotron current drive and their impact on the design of the upper EC …

E Poli, C Angioni, FJ Casson, D Farina, L Figini… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Electron cyclotron wave beams injected from a launcher placed in the upper part of the
vessel will be used in ITER to control MHD instabilities, in particular neoclassical tearing …

Beam model of Doppler backscattering

VH Hall-Chen, FI Parra… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We use beam tracing—implemented with a newly-written code, Scotty—and the reciprocity
theorem to derive a model for the linear backscattered power of the Doppler backscattering …

Broadening of electron cyclotron power deposition and driven current profiles caused by dissipative diffractive propagation

K Yanagihara, S Kubo - Nuclear Fusion, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Improvements in electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) and current drive (ECCD)
predictions are important issues for the design and control of high-performance fusion …

Quasi-optical theory of microwave plasma heating in open magnetic trap

AG Shalashov, AA Balakin, ED Gospodchikov… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Microwave heating of a high-temperature plasma confined in a large-scale open magnetic
trap, including all important wave effects like diffraction, absorption, dispersion, and wave …

Quasi-optical simulation of the electron cyclotron plasma heating in a mirror magnetic trap

AG Shalashov, AA Balakin, TA Khusainov… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - Springer
The resonance microwave plasma heating in a large-scale open magnetic trap is simulated
taking into account all the basic wave effects during the propagation of short-wavelength …

Comparison of magnetic island stabilization strategies from magneto-hydrodynamic simulations

O Février, P Maget, H Lütjens… - Plasma Physics and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The degradation of plasma confinement in tokamaks caused by magnetic islands motivates
to better understand their possible suppression using electron cyclotron current drive …

On the quasioptical approximation in dissipative media with spatial dispersion

AA Balakin, ED Gospodchikov, AG Shalashov - JETP letters, 2016 - Springer
A new form of the quasioptical equation is proposed to describe the propagation of an
electromagnetic wave beam in a stationary smoothly inhomogeneous medium with spatial …

[PDF][PDF] Квазиоптическое моделирование электронного циклотронного нагрева плазмы в прямой магнитной ловушке

АГ Шалашов, АА Балакин, ТА Хусаинов… - Журнал …, 2017 - jetp.ras.ru
Поглощение электромагнитных волн в условиях электронного циклотронного (ЭЦ)
резонанса широко используется для нагрева высокотемпературной плазмы в …

Resolving ECRH deposition broadening due to edge turbulence in DIII-D by 3D full-wave simulations

MB Thomas, MW Brookman, ME Austin, A Köhn… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Edge plasma density fluctuations are shown to have a significant effect on the electron
cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) beam in the DIII-D tokamak. Experimental …

ECE for NTM control on ITER

H van den Brand, MR de Baar… - EPJ Web of …, 2012 - epj-conferences.org
Control of Neoclassical Tearing Modes (NTMs) requires an accurate and low latency
detection of the mode position. For a burning H-mode ITER plasma, simulations are …