Oscillating Field Current Drive in the Reversed Field Pinch

Oscillating Field Current Drive (OFCD) was originally proposed as a means of maintaining a quasi steady-state plasma current in a RFP without building up the magnetizing flux threading the central hole of the torus. The MHD dynamics of OFCD is analyzed using a combination of a 1-D transport code, a linear resistive MHD stability model, and Kadomtsev nonlinear global reconnection model.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Nuclear Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Scardovelli, Ruben Angelo Ugo

• Physics, Fluid and Plasma

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8803192

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70911