TORBEAM 2.0, a paraxial beam tracing code for electron-cyclotron beams in fusion plasmas for extended physics applications

E Poli, A Bock, M Lochbrunner, O Maj, M Reich… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
The paraxial WKB code TORBEAM (Poli, 2001) is widely used for the description of electron-
cyclotron waves in fusion plasmas, retaining diffraction effects through the solution of a set of …

Electron-cyclotron-current-drive efficiency in DEMO plasmas

E Poli, G Tardini, H Zohm, E Fable, D Farina… - Nuclear …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The achievable efficiency for external current drive through electron-cyclotron waves in a
demonstration tokamak reactor is investigated. Two possible reactor designs, one for steady …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Quasioptical modeling of wave beams with and without mode conversion. I. Basic theory

IY Dodin, DE Ruiz, K Yanagihara, Y Zhou… - Physics of Plasmas, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This work opens a series of papers where we develop a general quasi-optical theory for
mode-converting electromagnetic beams in plasma and implement it in a numerical …

Wave beams, packets and pulses in inhomogeneous non-Hermitian media with dispersive gain or damping

E Poli, A Bottino, D Korger, O Maj… - New Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Wave beams, packets or pulses are known to be subject to a drift if the properties of the
medium change across their extension. This effect is often analyzed considering the …

Interpreting radial correlation Doppler reflectometry using gyrokinetic simulations

JR Ruiz, FI Parra, VH Hall-Chen… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A linear response, local model for the DBS amplitude applied to gyrokinetic simulations
shows that radial correlation Doppler reflectometry measurements (RCDR, Schirmer et al …

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 …

ECCD calculations in ITER by means of the quasi-optical code

N Bertelli, AA Balakin, E Westerhof… - Nuclear Fusion, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD) calculations for the case of the ITER electron
cyclotron resonant heating upper port launcher are presented making use of a quasi-optical …

Density fluctuation correlation measurements in ASDEX Upgrade using poloidal and radial correlation reflectometry

D Prisiazhniuk, GD Conway… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The poloidal correlation reflectometry diagnostic operated in ordinary mode with additional
radial correlation channel is applied in this paper to investigate the correlation of the …

Wigner Function Method for Describing Electromagnetic Field in Plasma-Like Media with Spatial Dispersion and Resonant Dissipation

ED Gospodchikov, AA Balakin, AG Shalashov - Plasma Physics Reports, 2024 - Springer
The paper gives a systematic presentation of the Wigner function method (Weyl formalism)
for modeling the propagation and absorption of electromagnetic waves in anisotropic and …