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A two-dimensional analysis of mode conversion at a resonance layer with high-magnetic field side reflection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2007

NORA NASSIRI-MOFAKHAM  and
AKBAR PARVAZIAN
NORA NASSIRI-MOFAKHAM
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran ([email protected])
AKBAR PARVAZIAN
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran ([email protected])
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Abstract

Mode converted Bernstein waves potentially allow the implementation of local heating and current drive in spherical torus devices, which are not directly accessible to low-harmonic cyclotron waves. The mode conversion method of Cairns and Lashmore-Davies previously used to study the usual mode conversion in non-planar geometry is extended to include the effect of the high-magnetic-field-side cutoff, and is solved analytically. The analytic solutions to the triplet, cutoff–resonance–cutoff, equations give the reflection and conversion coefficients in terms of parameters defining the local behavior of the dispersion relation. The variation of mode conversion efficiency depends not only on the coupling parameter but also on the phasing effect introduced by the high-field-side cutoff. The change in characteristic phases, which are concerned with the coupling parameter, brings an additional degree of freedom allowing optimization via the position of the high-field cutoff. A discrete spectrum of phases exists for which complete mode conversion of the incident wave for a transit of the resonance region can be achieved. The results we obtain here give the general conditions for efficient Bernstein wave heating in two-dimensional geometry.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 73 , Issue 4 , August 2007 , pp. 473 - 484
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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