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To better understand the interaction of global tearing modes and microturbulence in the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) reversed-field pinch (RFP), the global gyrokinetic code \textsc{Gene} is modified to describe global tearing mode…

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Toroidal Alfv\'en eigenmodes (TAEs) are gap modes induced by the toroidicity of tokamak plasmas in absence of continuum damping. They can be excited by energetic particles (EPs) when the EP drive exceeds other dampings. A TAE benchmark…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Yawei Hou , Ping Zhu , Charlson C. Kim , Zhaoqing Hu , Zhihui Zou , Zhengxiong Wang , the NIMROD Team

In fusion plasmas the strong magnetic field allows the fast gyro-motion to be systematically removed from the description of the dynamics, resulting in a considerable model simplification and gain of computational time. Nowadays, the…

Nonlinear electromagnetic stabilization by suprathermal pressure gradients found in specific regimes is shown to be a key factor in reducing tokamak microturbulence, augmenting significantly the thermal pressure electromagnetic…

Isotropic homogeneous hydromagnetic turbulence is studied using numerical simulations at resolutions of up to 1024^3 meshpoints. It is argued that, in contrast to the kinematic regime, the nonlinear regime is characterized by a spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandenburg , N. E. L. Haugen , W. Dobler

In the present work, we have studied the transverse momentum distributions (TMDs) for the electron in simulated QED model. We have used the overlap representation of light-front wave functions (LFWFs) where the spin-1/2 relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-28 Navdeep Kaur , Harleen Dahiya

The explicit quasi-monotonic conservative TVD scheme and numerical method for the solution of the gravitational MHD equations are developed. The 2D numerical code for the simulation of multidimensional selfgravitating MHD flows on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander E. Dudorov , Oleg A. Kuznetsov , Andrey G. Zhilkin

The limitations of Hall MHD as a model for turbulence in weakly collisional plasmas are explored using quantitative comparisons to Vlasov-Maxwell kinetic theory over a wide range of parameter space. The validity of Hall MHD in the cold ion…

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Magnetic Skyrmions belong to the most interesting spin structures for the development of future information technology as they have been predicted to be topologically protected. To quantify their stability, we use an innovative multiscale…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-19 Andrea De Lucia , Kai Litzius , Benjamin Krüger , Oleg A. Tretiakov , Mathias Kläui

The growth and saturation of magnetic field in conducting turbulent media with large magnetic Prandtl numbers are investigated. This regime is very common in low-density hot astrophysical plasmas. During the early (kinematic) stage, weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , G. W. Hammett , J. L. Maron , J. C. McWilliams

Reduced fluid models for collisionless plasmas including electron inertia and finite Larmor radius corrections are derived for scales ranging from the ion to the electron gyroradii. Based either on pressure balance or on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 T. Passot , P. L. Sulem , E. Tassi

We consider the problem of incompressible, forced, nonhelical, homogeneous, isotropic MHD turbulence with no mean magnetic field. This problem is essentially different from the case with externally imposed uniform mean field. There is no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , S. F. Taylor , J. L. Maron , J. C. McWilliams

This work investigates toroidal momentum transport in type-I ELMy H-mode plasmas in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak, focusing on the formation of hollow rotation profiles under strong electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH). Applying the…

Nonlinear multiscale gyrokinetic simulations of a Joint European Torus edge pedestal are used to show that electron-temperature-gradient (ETG) turbulence has a rich three-dimensional structure, varying strongly according to the local…

In this study, global nonlinear electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulations are conducted to investigate turbulence in the Internal transport barrier (ITB) region of the EAST tokamak discharge with weakly reversed magnetic shear. Linear…

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We investigate the launching and stability of extragalactic jets through nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation and linear eigenmode analysis. In the simulations of jet evolution, a small-scale equilibrium magnetic arcade is twisted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 C. S. Carey , C. R. Sovinec

The dynamics of the two-dimensional (2D) state in driven tridimensional (3D) incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is investigated through high-resolution direct numerical simulations and in the presence of an external magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Barbara Bigot , Sebastien Galtier

We theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate the use of motional sidebands in a trapped ensemble of $^{87}$Rb atoms to engineer tunable long-range XXZ spin models. We benchmark our simulator by probing a ferromagnetic to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-09 Anjun Chu , Johannes Will , Jan Arlt , Carsten Klempt , Ana Maria Rey

The redistribution of angular momentum is a long standing problem in our understanding of protoplanetary disk (PPD) evolution. The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is considered a likely mechanism. We present the results of a study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Donna Rodgers-Lee , Tom P. Ray , Turlough P. Downes

In this work, we investigate the dynamics of plasma blobs in the edge of magnetic confinement devices using a full-f gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code with X-point geometry. In simulations, the evolution of a seeded blob is followed as it…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Junyi Cheng , James Myra , Seung-Hoe Ku , Robert Hager , Choong-Seock Chang , Scott Parker