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We present implicit-explicit (IMEX) kinetic simulations of weakly collisional parallel plasma transport in magnetic mirror configurations using the continuum code \textsc{COGENT}. The numerical scheme employs a Jacobian-free Newton--Krylov…

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We present the TRIDK code, which is written in Python, that solves Triad Reduced Interactions for a Drift Kinetic system of equations. The four-dimensional drift kinetic system of equations captures nonlinear electromagnetic (or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 Evgeny A. Gorbunov , Bogdan Teaca

The dynamic interplay between the core and the edge plasma has important consequences in the confinement and heating of fusion plasma. The transport of the Scrape-Off-Layer (SOL) plasma imposes boundary conditions on the core plasma, and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 X. Zhang , F. M. Poli , E. D. Emdee , M. Podestà

A kinetic model of the electron transfer at the electrode / electrolyte solution interface is developed, implemented in a Monte Carlo framework, and applied to simulate this process in idealised systems consisting of the primitive model of…

Numerical solutions of the standard electrokinetic model provide a basis for interpreting a variety of electrokinetic phenomena involving `bare' colloids. However, the model rests on the classical notion of a shear or slipping plane, whose…

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JOREK is a massively parallel fully implicit non-linear extended MHD code for realistic tokamak X-point plasmas. It has become a widely used versatile code for studying large-scale plasma instabilities and their control developed in an…

Cross-modal knowledge transfer enhances point cloud representation learning in LiDAR semantic segmentation. Despite its potential, the \textit{weak teacher challenge} arises due to repetitive and non-diverse car camera images and sparse,…

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This paper describes a new code for simulating astrophysical plasmas that solves a hybrid model composed of gyrokinetic ions (GKI) and an isothermal electron fluid (ITEF) [A. Schekochihin et al., Astrophys. J. Suppl. \textbf{182}, 310…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Y. Kawazura , M. Barnes

We derive a fluid-dynamic model for electron transport near a Dirac point in graphene. The derivation is based on the minimum entropy principle, which is exploited in order to close fluid-dynamic equations for quantum mixed states. To this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Nicola Zamponi , Luigi Barletti

Training machine learning models for robotic tactile sensing requires vast amounts of data, yet obtaining realistic interaction data remains a challenge due to physical complexity and variability. Simulating tactile sensors is thus a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wadhah Zai El Amri , Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero

The properties of the boundary plasma in a tokamak are now recognized to play a key role in determining the achievable fusion power and the lifetimes of plasma-facing components. Accurate quantitative modeling and improved qualitative…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-25 E. L. Shi

Toroidal rotation is crucial for maintaining stable and high performance plasmas in tokamak fusion reactors. Among its driving mechanisms, the neoclassical toroidal viscosity (NTV) torque--induced by three-dimensional magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Xingting Yan , Yuetao Meng , Nana Bao , Youwen Sun , Weiyong Zhou , Jinpeng Huang

FOXTAIL is a new hybrid magnetohydrodynamic-kinetic code used to describe interactions between energetic particles and Alfv\'en eigenmodes in tokamaks with realistic geometries. The code simulates the nonlinear dynamics of the amplitudes of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Emmi Tholerus , Thomas Johnson , Torbjörn Hellsten

Explicit structure-preserving geometric Particle-in-Cell (PIC) algorithm in curvilinear orthogonal coordinate systems is developed. The work reported represents a further development of the structure-preserving geometric PIC algorithm…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin

Accurate modeling of runaway electron generation and losses during tokamak disruptions is crucial for the development of reactor-scale tokamak devices. In this paper we present a reduced model for runaway electron losses due to flux surface…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Oskar Vallhagen , Lise Hanebring , Tünde Fülöp , Mathias Hoppe , Istvan Pusztai

We propose an asymptotic-preserving (AP), uniformly convergent numerical scheme for the relativistic collisional Drift-Kinetic Equation (rDKE) to simulate runaway electrons in axisymmetric toroidal magnetic field geometries typical of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Luis Chacon , Don Daniel , William T. Taitano

We present a new hybrid algorithm implemented in the code CHIEF (Code Hybrid with Inertial Electron Fluid) for simulations of electron-ion plasmas. The algorithm treats the ions kinetically, modeled by the Particle-in-Cell (PiC) method, and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 P. A. Muñoz , N. Jain , P. Kilian , J. Büchner

Accurate models of the scrape-off layer are required for the design and operation of tokamak fusion reactors. Scrape-off layer simulations are computationally expensive, difficult to operate and suffer from numerical instabilities. A…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Stefan Dasbach , Sebastijan Brezinsek , Yunfeng Liang , Dirk Reiser , Sven Wiesen

The overtaking collisions of ion-acoustic solitons (IASs) in presence of trapping effects of electrons are studied based on a fully kinetic simulation approach. The method is able to provide all the kinetic details of the process alongside…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 S. M. Hosseini Jenab , F. Spanier

An electrostatic gyrokinetic-based model is applied to simulate parallel plasma transport in the scrape-off layer to a divertor plate. The authors focus on a test problem that has been studied previously, using parameters chosen to model a…

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