TY - JOUR
T1 - Global waves in hot plasmas
AU - Fukuyama, A.
AU - Itoh, K.
AU - Itoh, S. I.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank Prof. Y. Furutani of Okayama Univ., Prof. K. Uo of Kyoto Univ., Prof. K. Nishikawa of Hiroshima Univ. and Dr. M. Tanaka of Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute for continuous encouragements.T his work is partially supported by Grant in Aid for Scientific Research and Grant in Aid for Fusion Research of MOE Japan.
PY - 1986/8/1
Y1 - 1986/8/1
N2 - This article reviews theoretical and numerical study on the global structure of Alfvén and ICRF waves in the high temperature plasmas confined in tokamaks. The kinetic theory of the wave equation in an inhomogeneous and dispersive medium is developed. The wave equation is solved as a boundary value problem to provide a consistent description of the excitation by an antenna, propagation and absorption of the rf waves. The wave forms, power deposition profile, power partition by plasma species, and the antenna impedance are obtained. The numerical procedure and accuracy of the solution as well as the computational performance are also discussed.
AB - This article reviews theoretical and numerical study on the global structure of Alfvén and ICRF waves in the high temperature plasmas confined in tokamaks. The kinetic theory of the wave equation in an inhomogeneous and dispersive medium is developed. The wave equation is solved as a boundary value problem to provide a consistent description of the excitation by an antenna, propagation and absorption of the rf waves. The wave forms, power deposition profile, power partition by plasma species, and the antenna impedance are obtained. The numerical procedure and accuracy of the solution as well as the computational performance are also discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0167-7977(86)90028-6
DO - 10.1016/0167-7977(86)90028-6
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0022109393
SN - 0167-7977
VL - 4
SP - 137
EP - 181
JO - Computer Physics Reports
JF - Computer Physics Reports
IS - 3-4
ER -