Abstract
Beam-driven currents can be enhanced by ICRF-heating of the beam-ions carrying the currents, because the slowing down time of these fast ions for the thermalization is effectively extended by the ICRF-acceleration. The ICRF-enhanced portion of the driven currents have usually a spatial distribution different to that of the pure beam-driven current. The driven currents are estimated with 1-D model taking into account neo-classical corrections on the contribution of electron-currents. The calculation of the current-distributions has shown that changing the ratio between the NBI and ICRF wave powers allows one to control the current-profiles in Tokamaks.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 001 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1069-1076 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1985 Dec 1 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear Energy and Engineering
- Condensed Matter Physics