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While boundary plasmas in present-day tokamaks generally fall in a fluid regime, neutral species near the boundary often require kinetic models due to long mean-free-paths compared to characteristic spatial scales in the region. Monte-Carlo…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Gregory J. Parker , Maxim V. Umansky , Benjamin D. Dudson

We propose a family of integrators, Flow-Composed Implicit Runge-Kutta (FCIRK) methods, for perturbations of nonlinear ordinary differential equations, consisting of the composition of flows of the unperturbed part alternated with one step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Mikel Antoñana , Joseba Makazaga , Ander Murua

A new lattice method is presented in order to efficiently solve the electrokinetic equations, which describe the structure and dynamics of the charge cloud and the flow field surrounding a single charged colloidal sphere, or a fixed array…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-05 R. Schmitz , B. Duenweg

A novel class of high-order linearly implicit energy-preserving integrating factor Runge-Kutta methods are proposed for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Based on the idea of the scalar auxiliary variable approach, the original equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Chaolong Jiang , Jin Cui , Xu Qian , Songhe Song

We report the observation of a quasi-coherent density fluctuation (QCF) by the Doppler backscattering system in the scrape-off layer (SOL) region of the DIII-D tokamak. This QCF is observed in high-power, high-performance hybrid plasmas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 R. Hong , T. L. Rhodes , Z. Y. Li , H. Wang , L. Zeng , K. Barada , G. Wang , J. G. Watkins , W. A. Peebles

We present a novel numerical implementation of radiative transfer in the cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation code {\small GADGET}. It is based on a fast, robust and photon-conserving integration scheme where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Petkova , V. Springel

This paper combines results from a local gyrokinetic code with analytical theory to reconstruct the global eigenmode structure of the linearly unstable ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) mode with adiabatic electrons. The simulations presented…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 P. A. Abdoul , D. Dickinson , C. M. Roach , H. R. Wilson

New Grad's-Zhdanov module is implemented in the SOLPS-ITER code and applied to ITER impurity transport simulations. Significant difference appears in the helium transport due to improved parallel kinetic coefficients. As a result 30\%…

An application of the thermodynamic field theory (TFT) to transport processes in L-mode tokamak plasmas is presented. The nonlinear corrections to the linear (Onsager) transport coefficients in the collisional regimes are derived. A quite…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Giorgio Sonnino , Philippe Peeters

Hybrid-VPIC is an extension of the open-source high-performance particle-in-cell (PIC) code VPIC incorporating hybrid kinetic ion/fluid electron solvers. This paper describes the models that are available in the code and gives an overview…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Ari Le , Adam Stanier , Lin Yin , Blake Wetherton , Brett Keenan , Brian Albright

Two dimensional stochastic time model of scrape-off layer (SOL) turbulent transport is studied. Instability arisen in the system with respect to the stochastic perturbations of both either density or vorticity reveals itself in the strong…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Volchenkov , R. Lima

Ab-initio electron - liquid phase xenon fully differential cross-sections for electrons scattering in liquid xenon are developed from a solution of the Dirac-Fock scattering equations, using a recently developed framework [1] which…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Greg Boyle , Robert McEachran , Daniel Cocks , Michael Brunger , Steve Buckman , Sasa Dujko , Ron White

Gyrokinetic simulation codes are used to understand the microturbulence in the linear and nonlinear regimes of the tokamak and stellarator core. The codes that use flux coordinates to reduce computational complexities introduced by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Jaya Kumar Alageshan , Joydeep Das , Tajinder Singh , Sarveshwar Sharma , Animesh Kuley

This work reports on the development and numerical implementation of the linear electromagnetic gyrokinetic (GK) model in a tokamak flux-tube geometry using a moment approach based on the expansion of the perturbed distribution function on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 B. J. Frei , A. C. D. Hoffmann , P. Ricci , S. Brunner , Z. Tecchiolli

We give a concise account on the derivation of hybrid quantum-classical models for stationary electron transport in graphene, in presence of sharp potential steps of barriers. A quantum region (an asymptotically thin strip around the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Luigi Barletti , Claudia Negulescu

We discuss transport through a lateral quantum dot in the vicinity of a singlet-triplet spin transition in its ground state. Extracting the scattering phase shifts from the numerical renormalization group spectra, we determine the linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Hofstetter , G. Zarand

We present KITE, a general purpose open-source tight-binding software for accurate real-space simulations of electronic structure and quantum transport properties of large-scale molecular and condensed systems with tens of billions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-16 Simão M. João , Miša Anđelković , Lucian Covaci , Tatiana Rappoport , João M. V. P. Lopes , Aires Ferreira

Kinetic equations for the stationary state distribution function of ions moving through narrow pores are solved for a number of one-dimensional models of single ion transport. Ions move through pores of length $L$, under the action of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaroslaw Piasecki , Rosalind J. Allen , Jean-Pierre Hansen

Molecular systems can exhibit a complex, chemically tailorable inner structure which allows for targeting of specific mechanical, electronic and optical properties. At the single-molecule level, two major complementary ways to explore these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Rocco Gaudenzi , Maciej Misiorny , Enrique Burzurí , Maarten R. Wegewijs , Herre S. J. van der Zant

A quasi-linear reduced transport model is developed from a database of high-$\beta$ electromagnetic nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations performed with Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) relevant parameters. The quasi-linear model…