FullWave Simulation of Lower Hybrid Wave with Hot Plasma Response in Fusion Plasmas

The hot plasma response, formulated in configuration space, is calculated by performing velocity and time integrals along particle orbits based on the solution of linearized Vlasov equation in non-uniform magnetic fields[1]. We will present the conductivity kernel calculation results for Lower Hybrid waves in 1D and 2D Tokamak plasmas.



The hot plasma response has been implemented in 1D direct-solver version of FullWave, a hybrid-iterative full wave solver to model rf waves in configuration space with staggering E and B grids by solving discretized wave equations[2,3]. The simulated lower Hybrid rf fields with non-local hot plasma effects in 1D magnetic fields will be presented and discussed.



We will report the progress of developing the algorithm of the hot model implemented in FullWave with locally implicit time-evolution solver which simulates LH waves in high resolution with realistic fusion plasma parameters. The results of 1D preliminary hot modelling will be presented.