Lower hybrid wave heating in the Octopole tokamak
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nuclear Fusion
- Vol. 22 (2), 235-245
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/22/2/005
Abstract
Electron heating (ΔTe/Te≤30%, Δne/ne≤100%) was produced in tokamak-like discharges (ne = 2 × 1011 cm−3, Te 15 eV, ) in the General Atomic Octopole by application of lower hybrid wave power. The heating efficiency was 50% for v/vT = 1.7 and 17% for v/vT = 3.4.Keywords
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