Self-Consistent Full-Wave / Fokker-Planck Calculations for Ion Cyclotron Heating in Non-Maxwellian Plasmas

Self‐consistent solutions for the wave electric field and particle distribution function are calculated for ion cyclotron heating in non‐Maxwellian plasmas. The all‐orders wave solver AORSA is generalized to treat non‐thermal velocity distributions arising from fusion reactions, neutral beam injection, and wave driven diffusion in velocity space. Quasi‐linear diffusion coefficients are derived directly from the wave electric fields and used to calculate velocity distribution functions with the CQL3D Fokker‐Planck code. Self‐consistent results are obtained by iterating the full‐wave and Fokker‐Planck solutions.