A computational scheme is developed which permits tractable calculation of three-dimensional full-wave solutions to the Maxwell-Vlasov equations under • typical Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequencies (ICRF) experimental conditions; The method is unique in that power deposition to the plasma is determined via* the anti-Hermitian part of a truncated warm-plasma dielectric operator, rather than as the result of an assumed phenomenological collisioa frequency. The-.^ resulting computer code allows arbitrary variation of density, temperature, magnetic field, and minority concentration in the poioidal plane by performing a convolution of poioidal modes to produce a coupled system of differential equations in the radial variable. By assuming no inhomogeneity along the tor. Jdal axis, an inverse transform over k, is performed to yield the full three-dimensional field solutions. The application of the code to TFTR-like plasmas shows a mild resonance structure in antenna loading related to the changing number of wavelengths between antenna and the resonance layer.

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