Charles Karney: Publication 37/85, Hwang(1983)

D. Q. Hwang, C. F. F. Karney, J. C. Hosea, J. A. Murphy, C. E. Singer, and J. R. Wilson.
Modeling of ICRF heating of a tokamak plasma.
Technical Report PPPL-1990, Princeton Univ., May 1983.
27 pp.
Reprint: PPPL-1990
BibTeX Entry

A model for wave propagation and absorption on the Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequencies (ICRF) has been constructed and fitted into the 1-D BALDUR transport code. The wave propagation is handled by ray tracing techniques. Wave absorption is calculation using the Fokker-Planck equation and quasilinear diffusion. The wave propagation and damping profiles are evolved in time according to the plasma evolution. A simulation of PLT hydrogen minority ICRF heating with a comparison to experimental data is given.