SWEDEN - STOCK

DIVISION OF FUSION PLASMA PHYSICS
ALFVÉN LABORATORY
ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Teknikringen 31, S-100 44 Stockholm

Telephone: +46 8 790 77 04
Telefax: +46 8 24 54 31
E-mail: drake@fusion.kth.se
URL:   http://www.fusion.kth.se

Director:

Drake, James R.

Fusion Plasma Physics Staff

Bergsåker, Henric
Brunsell, Per
Brzozowski, Jerzy
Drake, James

Elevant, Thomas
Hellsten, Torbjörn
Jaun, Andre
Rubel, Marek

Sätherblom, Hans-Erik
Scheffel, Jan
Tendler, Michael
Tennfors, Einar

Research activities:
The main experimental activity of the Swedish Fusion Research Unit is the EXTRAP project located at the Division of Fusion Plasma Physics in the Alfvén Laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). The goal of the EXTRAP programme is the study of the reversed field pinch magnetic confinement configuration while at the same time addressing several specific problem areas which are of basic importance for all magnetic confinement configurations. These areas include nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics and associated fluctuation turbulence and its effect on transport phenomena, edge plasma physics and plasma wall interaction and development of spectroscopic diagnostic techniques for the evaluation of plasma parameters.

The theoretical activity of the division is directed towards specific priority areas in the tokamak programme. They include physics model development of the behaviour of ion cyclotron waves in the plasma for heating the plasma, as well as driving currents and development of models for the plasma edge region in order to model the importance of the physics phenomena in this region for the confinement properties of the configuration.

The research activity is a part of the European fusion research programme implemented through a contract of Association, EURATOM/VR.