Simulation of the ion cyclotron range of frequencies slow wave and the lower hybrid resonance in 3D in RAPLICASOL

M Usoltceva, R Ochoukov, W Tierens… - Plasma Physics and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) wave propagation is calculated theoretically for
tokamak conditions and for linear magnetized plasma device IShTAR which is dedicated to …

Resonance in radio frequency sheath admittance and enhanced impurity emission near the ion cyclotron frequency

M Rezazadeh, JR Myra, D Curreli - Nuclear Fusion, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) is of considerable interest among all auxiliary
heating techniques, because it transfers power directly to ions, targets the high-density core …

Numerical solutions of Maxwell's equations in 3D in frequency domain with linear sheath boundary conditions

W Tierens, G Urbanczyk, L Colas, M Usoltceva - Physics of Plasmas, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we construct a numerical technique capable of solving Maxwell's equations in
the frequency domain, both in vacuum and in cold magnetized plasma, with a boundary …

Parasitic Modulation of Microwave Signals by a Hypersonic Plasma Layer

NA Roberds, MW Young, NE Miller… - … on Plasma Science, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During hypersonic flight, compressional and viscous heating of the air can form a plasma
layer which encases the aircraft. If the boundary layer becomes turbulent, then the electron …

Modelling of radio frequency sheath and fast wave coupling on the realistic ion cyclotron resonant antenna surroundings and the outer wall

L Lu, L Colas, J Jacquot, B Després… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to model the sheath rectification in a realistic geometry over the size of ion cyclotron
resonant heating (ICRH) antennas, the self-consistent sheaths and waves for ICH (SSWICH) …

[PDF][PDF] Recent improvements to the ICRF antenna coupling code" RAPLICASOL"

W Tierens, G Suarez Lopez, R Otin… - AIP Conference …, 2020 - pure.mpg.de
In this paper we discuss recent improvements to the ICRF antenna coupling code
“RAPLICASOL”, its ability to handle curved antenna geometries, to simulate ICRF wave …

[HTML][HTML] Full wave modeling of radio-frequency beams in tokamaks in the electron cyclotron frequency range

VA Svidzinski, L Zhao, JS Kim, N Barov - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Simulation of full wave, without paraxial approximation, high-resolution solution of wave
equations in frequency domain in the electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) frequency range …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid iterative approach for simulation of radio-frequency fields in plasma

VA Svidzinski, JS Kim, L Zhao, SA Galkin… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A novel iterative approach for solving discretized linear wave equations in a frequency
domain, which combines time evolution with iterative relaxation schemes, is presented. In …

Development of the “Stix” Code, a Radio Frequency (RF) Wave Solver, to Investigate RF-Sheath Behavior in Realistic Tokamak Geometry

CP Migliore - 2024 - dspace.mit.edu
A favorable method to heat plasmas to fusion relevant temperatures is to use radio
frequency (RF) waves in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF). However …

Investigating nonlinear integrable optics with a Paul trap

J Flowerdew - 2023 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Designing high-intensity accelerators has traditionally relied on using computer simulations
to study the beam dynamics. As intense beams are comprised of large numbers of particles …