Ion‐cyclotron resonance heating by means of the fast wave in a longitudinally inhomogeneous magnetic field
Ion‐cyclotron resonance heating by means of the fast wave in a longitudinally inhomogeneous magnetic field
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纵向不均匀磁场中快波的离子回旋共振加热
DOI:
10.1063/1.864922
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发表时间:
1985
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通讯作者:
R. A. Cairns
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作者:
C. Lashmore;V. Fuchs;R. A. Cairns
The coupling between the fast wave and the slow ion‐cyclotron wave in a plasma in which the equilibrium magnetic field is longitudinally inhomogeneous is reconsidered, using a model studied by White, Yoshikawa, and Oberman [Phys. Fluids 25, 384 (1982)]. Such a coupling can only occur when a second ion species is present and for finite k⊥. This configuration is of relevance to mirrors and also tokamaks. An approximate dispersion relation is obtained from the usual cold plasma model by replacing all slowly varying quantities by their value at the coupling point. The resulting equation preserves the cutoff properties of the original equation. The approximate dispersion relation is then used to analyze the mode conversion of the fast wave to the slow wave at the minority resonance. For N⊥≡cAk⊥/ω ≪1 the transmission coefficient is close to unity but for N⊥ ≲1 the transmission becomes very weak and for incidence from the stronger field region, the absorption becomes strong. When the wave is incident from the we...