Parametric assessments of current rampup by Lower Hybrid Current Drive in TFCX

A lower hybrid current drive code has been developed from two previous existing codes which incorporates the eikonal (WKB) approximation in toroidal canonical variables and an analytic treatment of quasi-linear absorption. Ray-tracing is performed for a 5 to 9 ray spectrum in a nonuniform, circular plasma with the local warm plasma dispersion relation. A parameter study in n/sub e/, T/sub e/, n/sub parallel/, and frequency is being carried out for two startup scenarios (i.e., expanding radius at the outboard midplane and full radius startup on the toroidal axis) for the superconducting toroidal field coil TFCX device. Driven current profiles and current drive efficiencies for both a Maxwellian background plasma and an electron distribution with an rf-enhanced tail are presented