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Designing a Validation Experiment for Radio Frequency Condensation

Plasma Physics 2024-10-18 v1

Abstract

Theoretical studies have suggested that nonlinear effects can lead to "radio frequency condensation", which coalesces RF power deposition and driven current near the center of a magnetic island. It is predicted that an initially broad current profile can coalesce in islands when they reach sufficient width, providing automatic stabilization. Experimental validation of the theory has thus far been lacking. This paper proposes experiments on DIII-D for testing and refining the theory of the nonlinear effects.

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@article{arxiv.2410.13717,
  title  = {Designing a Validation Experiment for Radio Frequency Condensation},
  author = {Lanke Fu and E. Litvinova Mitra and R. Nies and A. H. Reiman and M. Austin and L. Bardoczi and M. Brookman and Xi Chen and W. Choi and N. J. Fisch and Q. Hu and A. Hyatt and E. Jung and R. La Haye and N. C. Logan and M. Maraschek and J. J. McClenaghan and E. Strait and A. Welander and J. Yang and ASDEX Upgrade team},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.13717},
  year   = {2024}
}
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