Progress towards numerical and experimental simulations of fusion relevant beam instabilities

M. King; R. Bryson; K. Ronald; R. A. Cairns; S. L. McConville; D. C. Speirs; A. D. R. Phelps; R. Bingham; K. M. Gillespie; A. W. Cross; I. Vorgul; R. Trines

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/511/1/012047

Progress towards numerical and experimental simulations of fusion relevant beam instabilities

M. King^*, R. Bryson, K. Ronald, R. A. Cairns, S. L. McConville, D. C. Speirs, A. D. R. Phelps, R. Bingham, K. M. Gillespie, A. W. Cross, I. Vorgul, R. Trines

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In certain plasmas, non-thermal electron distributions can produce instabilities. These instabilities may be useful or potentially disruptive. Therefore the study of these instabilities is of importance in a variety of fields including fusion science and astrophysics. Following on from previous work conducted at the University of Strathclyde on the cyclotron resonance maser instability that was relevant to astrophysical radiowave generation, further instabilities are being investigated. Particular instabilities of interest are the anomalous Doppler instability which can occur in magnetic confinement fusion plasmas and the two-stream instability that is of importance in fast-ignition inertial confinement fusion. To this end, computational simulations have been undertaken to investigate the behaviour of both the anomalous Doppler and two-stream instabilities with the goal of designing an experiment to observe these behaviours in a laboratory.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	15th International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP2010) & 13th Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (LAWPP2010)
Place of Publication	Bristol
Publisher	IOP Publishing Ltd.
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/511/1/012047
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2014
Event	15th International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP) / 13th Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (LAWPP) - Santiago, Chile Duration: 8 Aug 2010 → 13 Aug 2010

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Name	Journal of Physics Conference Series
Publisher	IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Volume	511
ISSN (Print)	1742-6588

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Conference	15th International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP) / 13th Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (LAWPP)
Country/Territory	Chile
Period	8/08/10 → 13/08/10

Keywords

Anomalous Doppler resonance
Laboratory plasmas
Single-particle
Radiation
Dynamics
Space

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Instabilities in non-thermal plasmas: Instabilities in Non-Thermal Plasmas
Cairns, R. A. (PI)
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King, M., Bryson, R., Ronald, K., Cairns, R. A., McConville, S. L., Speirs, D. C., Phelps, A. D. R., Bingham, R., Gillespie, K. M., Cross, A. W., Vorgul, I., & Trines, R. (2014). Progress towards numerical and experimental simulations of fusion relevant beam instabilities. In 15th International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP2010) & 13th Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (LAWPP2010) (Journal of Physics Conference Series; Vol. 511). IOP Publishing Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/511/1/012047

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Progress towards numerical and experimental simulations of fusion relevant beam instabilities

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