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A disrupting plasma in a high-performance tokamak such as ITER or SPARC may generate large runaway electron currents that, upon impact with the tokamak wall, can cause serious damage to the device. To quickly identify regions of safe…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Björn Zaar , István Pusztai , Ida Ekmark , Tünde Fülöp

Disruptions in tokamak plasmas may lead to the generation of runaway electrons that have the potential to damage plasma-facing components. Improved understanding of the runaway generation process requires interpretative modelling of…

We study particle acceleration in strongly turbulent pair plasmas using novel 3D Particle-in-Cell simulations, featuring particle injection from an external heat bath and diffusive escape. We demonstrate the formation of steady-state,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Evgeny A. Gorbunov , Daniel Grošelj , Fabio Bacchini

A model for mildly relativistic Runaway Electrons (REs) is developed in a reduced-kinetic form and qualitatively compared with radiation characteristics observed in KSTAR ohmic startup. The mildly relativistic correction not only alleviates…

Runaway electron current generated during the Current Quench phase of tokamak disruptions could result in severe damage to future high performance devices. To control and mitigate such runaway electron current, it is important to accurately…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Lu Yuan , Di Hu

We present particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of minority energetic protons in deuterium plasmas, which demonstrate a collective instability responsible for emission near the lower hybrid frequency and its harmonics. The simulations capture…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-06-06 J W S Cook , S C Chapman , R O Dendy

We have investigated the development of current-driven (CD) kink instability through three-dimensional relativistic MHD simulations. A static force-free equilibrium helical magnetic configuration is considered in order to study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 Yosuke Mizuno , Yuri Lyubarsky , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Philip E. Hardee

Recent developments in vortex particle methods for simulating three-dimensional incompressible flows are presented. A lightweight, dynamic Large-Eddy Simulation model is tested, featuring a dynamic procedure that relies solely on Lagrangian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-13 Flavio A. C. Martins , Alexander van Zuijlen , Carlos J. Simao Ferreira

We present high resolution 2D and 3D simulations of magnetized decaying turbulence in relativistic resistive magneto-hydrodynamics. The simulations show dynamic formation of large scale intermittent long-lived current sheets being disrupted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Alexander Chernoglazov , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov

The paper presents a 1D2V electrostatic PIC model with a drift-kinetic description of all particle types aiming at simulating classical longitudinal plasma transport in axially symmetric open traps. The model generalizes the semi-implicit…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 V. V. Glinskiy , I. V. Timofeev , V. V. Prikhodko

The well observed inward drift of current carrying runaway electrons during runaway plateau regime after disruption is studied by considering the phase space dynamic of runaways in a large aspect ratio toroidal system. We consider the case…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Di Hu , Hong Qin

In the study of plasma, particularly in applications involving strong laser-plasma interactions, the propagation of a strong electromagnetic wave induces relativistic velocities in the electron flow. Given such conditions, the wave…

Hybrid-kinetic simulations describe ion-scale kinetic phenomena in space plasmas by considering ions kinetically, i.e. as particles, while electrons are modelled as a fluid. Most of the existing hybrid-kinetic codes neglect the electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Neeraj Jain , Patricio A. Muñoz , Jörg Büchner

Electron plasmas confined by an external magnetic field exhibit variations in a two-dimensional plane orthogonal to the confining magnetic field. A nonlinear fluid simulation code to investigate the properties of 2-D electron plasma wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , P. K. Shukla

A new three-dimensional, non-linear Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model has been extended in MIPS code, incorporating parallel heat diffusivity. The model has been benchmarked against the former MHD model used in MIPS code. A preliminary study…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 A. Civit-Bertran , S. Futatani , Y. Suzuki , J. Dominguez-Palacios

In fluid dynamics, one of the most important research fields is hydrodynamic instabilities and their evolution in different flow regimes. The investigation of said instabilities is concerned with the highly non-linear dynamics. Currently,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-28 Re'em Harel , Matan Rusanovsky , Yehonatan Fridman , Assaf Shimony , Gal Oren

Within the resistive magnetohydrodynamic model, high-Lundquist number reconnection layers are unstable to the plasmoid instability, leading to a turbulent evolution where the reconnection rate can be independent of the underlying…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 A. Stanier , W. Daughton , A. Le , X. Li , R. Bird

A self-regulating magnetic flux pumping mechanism in tokamaks that maintains the core safety factor at $q\approx 1$, thus preventing sawteeth, is analyzed in nonlinear 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations using the M3D-C$^1$ code. In these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 I. Krebs , S. C. Jardin , S. Günter , K. Lackner , M. Hoelzl , E. Strumberger , N. Ferraro

The stability of current sheets in collisionless relativistic pair plasma was studied via two-dimensional two-fluid relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations with vanishing internal friction between fluids. In particular, we investigated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Maxim V. Barkov , Serguei S. Komissarov

This study presents numerical simulations and experiments considering the flow of an electrically conducting fluid inside a cube driven by a rotating magnetic field (RMF). The investigations are focused on the spin-up, where a liquid metal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 V. Galindo , R. Nauber , D. Räbiger , S. Franke , H. Beyer , L. Büttner , J. Czarske , S. Eckert