ICRF Wave Propagation and Absorption in Plasmas with Non-thermal Populations
Authors: R.J. Dumont, C.K. Phillips, and D.N. Smithe
Date of PPPL Report: June 2002
Presented at: the 29th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, June 17-21, 2002, Montreux, Switzerland.
Some results obtained with the one dimensional, all orders, full wave code METS, which has been successfully employed in the past to describe a number of experiments, are reported. By using massively parallel computers, this code has been extended to handle non-thermal populations. Various physical situations, in which non-Maxwellian species are expected to be encountered, are studied, such as simultaneous neutral beam injection and high harmonic fast wave electron heating or ion cyclotron resonance heating in the presence of fusion products.