Abstract
A new approach for the numerical description of tokamak plasma waves in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies is discussed. It implies coupling of the full-wave and ray-tracing codes and is capable of unified treatment of waves of completely different scale and behavior. The method is applied for simulations of the electron heating scenario, based on fast wave (FW)–ion Bernstein wave (IBW) mode conversion near the ion–ion hybrid resonance in Tore Supra [B. Saoutic et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1647 (1996)]. The two-dimensional full-wave “ALCYON” code [D. J. Gambier and A. Samain, Nucl. Fus. 25, 283 (1985)] is used to describe the global FW field pattern in the plasma volume. A small-scale-waves filter, introduced into the code, artificially damps the mode-converted power, which is further prescribed to IBW rays. Remnant small-scale fields are extracted from the global pattern to provide information necessary for IBW rays to start. Three-dimensional evolution of IBW rays is simulated by the “RAYS” ray-tracing code [Yu. Petrov, Nucl. Fus. 34, 63 (1994)], being unrestricted by finite mesh size and finite Larmor radius effects.
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