In EAST tokamak high confinement mode discharge, a plasma current belt was found experimentally at the edge plasmas region. For EAST plasma with non-circular cross-section equilibrium configuration, effect of high parallel refractive index N_‖ component of lower hybrid wave on current drive was numerically studied. Results of the ray-tracing platform shows that kA plasma current emerges in a region of normalized radius from 0.7 to 1.0 for 6≤N_‖≤8. For electron temperature profile with pedestal and higher plasma edge temperature, the region of drive current is r/a>0.9.A theoretical analysis of lower hybrid Landau damping in EAST tokamak was also performed. Effects of electron density profile and formation of lower hybrid wave spectrum on current drive were discussed.

To study interpenetrating network hydrogel system of PAM/PVA, molecular dynamics simulation is made to investigate molecular interaction inside a hydrogel system. Effects of water content on PAM/PVA composite hydrogel performance are studied. It is found that cohesive energy density and binding energy of hydrogel system increase with water content increasing. Meanwhile elastic coefficients, engineering modulus and ductility decreased with increasing of water content. In addition, with analysis of pair correlation function, we found that there are mainly hydrogen bonding interactions between H₂O molecules and surrounding atoms or functional groups. Strengths of hydrogen bonds formed are O_water >O_PVA >O_PAM >N_PAM, which consists with possibility (difficulty) of forming hydrogen bond.