A lower hybrid current drive system for ITER

GT Hoang, A Bécoulet, J Jacquinot, JF Artaud… - Nuclear …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
A 20 MW/5 GHz lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) system was initially due to be
commissioned and used for the second mission of ITER, ie the Q= 5 steady state target …

Calculations of lower hybrid current drive in ITER

J Decker, Y Peysson, J Hillairet, JF Artaud… - Nuclear …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
A detailed study of lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) in ITER is provided, focusing on the
wave propagation and current drive mechanisms. A combination of ray-tracing and Fokker …

The 2008 public release of the international multi-tokamak confinement profile database

CM Roach, M Walters, RV Budny, F Imbeaux… - Nuclear …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper documents the public release PR08 of the International Tokamak Physics Activity
(ITPA) profile database, which should be of particular interest to the magnetic confinement …

Numerical analysis on the synergy between electron cyclotron current drive and lower hybrid current drive in tokamak plasmas

SY Chen, BB Hong, Y Liu, W Lu, J Huang… - Plasma Physics and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The synergy between electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD) and lower hybrid current drive
(LHCD) is investigated numerically with the parameters of the HL-2A tokamak. Based on the …

Self-consistent core-pedestal ITER scenario modeling

T Rafiq, J Weiland - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of these integrated ITER simulations is to identify dependencies that can
impact the performance of ITER. The dependence of fusion power production, temperature …

An ITER-relevant passive active multijunction launcher for lower hybrid current drive in JET-grade plasmas

JH Belo, P Bibet, JPS Bizarro, B Bertrand… - Nuclear …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) has been demonstrated to be an important actuator for
controlling the current profiles of advanced tokamak plasmas, either in fully non-inductive or …

Advances on modelling of ITER scenarios: physics and computational challenges

G Giruzzi, J Garcia, JF Artaud, V Basiuk… - Plasma Physics and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Methods and tools for design and modelling of tokamak operation scenarios are discussed
with particular application to ITER advanced scenarios. Simulations of hybrid and steady …

A linear model of synergetic current drive by low-hybird wave and electron cyclotron wave

JN Chen, SY Chen, ML Mou, CJ Tang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07025, 2023 - arxiv.org
A linear model of synergetic current drive (CD) by low-hybrid wave (LHW) and electron
cyclotron wave (ECW) is proposed. The SCD efficiency compared to ECCD's is given in …

Electron cyclotron heating and suprathermal electron dynamics in the TCV tokamak

S Gnesin - 2011 - infoscience.epfl.ch
This thesis is concerned with the physics of suprathermal electrons in thermonuclear,
magnetically confined plasmas. Under a variety of conditions, in laboratory as well as space …

Current control in ITER steady state plasmas with neutral beam steering

RV Budny - Physics of Plasmas, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Predictions of quasisteady state DT plasmas in ITER [R. Aymar et al, Nucl. Fusion 41, 1301
(2001)] are generated using the PTRANSP code [RV Budny, Nucl. Fusion 49, 085008 …