Publication Type
Conference Paper
Book Title
SCIDAC 2009: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY THROUGH ADVANCED COMPUTING. Journal of Physics Conference Series
Publication Date
Volume
180
Conference Name
5th Annual Conference of Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC 2009)
Conference Location
San Diego, California, United States of America
Conference Date
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Abstract
The rf-SciDAC collaboration is developing computer simulations to predict the damping of radio frequency (rf) waves in fusion plasmas. Here we extend self-consistent quasi-linear calculations of ion cyclotron resonant heating to include the finite drift of ions from magnetic flux surfaces and rf induced spatial transport. The all-orders spectral wave solver AORSA is iteratively coupled with a particle based update of the plasma distribution function.