Conveners
Wave Scattering
- Emanuele Poli (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Plasmaphysik)
The relativistic dielectric tensor is necessary to model wave propagation and absorption in high-temperature magnetized plasmas. In fusion plasmas, electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECH) requires ray-tracing calculations to evaluate a heating location and a heating efficiency in plasmas. In this study, for a non-uniform medium, a full-wave approach is applied to simulating the propagation...
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To inject power for heating or current drive, the RF beams must traverse the turbulent layer of plasma at the edge of the tokamak. In this layer, the density fluctuation level can reach 100 % of the background density, and the plasma fluctuates on length scales similar to that of the wavelength used for power injection. These density fluctuations...
