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A numerical model for radiofrequency heating of sloshing ions in a mirror trap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2006

VLADIMIR E. MOISEENKO
Affiliation:
Uppsala University, Angstrom Laboratory, Division of Electricity and Lightning Research, Box 534, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden Permanent address: Institute of Plasma Physics NSC KhIPT, 61108 Kharkiv, Ukraine. (E-mail: moiseenk@ipp.kharkov.ua)
OLOV ÅGREN
Affiliation:
Uppsala University, Angstrom Laboratory, Division of Electricity and Lightning Research, Box 534, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden

Abstract

A newly developed numerical model calculating the distribution and damping of radiofrequency fields by sloshing ions is presented. The model solves time-harmonic Maxwell's equations written in terms of the electric field. It uses a two-dimensional grid and a Fourier series in the third coordinate and is based on a non-staggered mesh not aligned along the steady magnetic field. The numerical stability of the scheme is discussed, and the convergence analysis is presented.

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Papers
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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