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Global time-dependent simulations provide a means to investigate time-dependent dynamic evolution in accretion disks. This paper seeks to extend previous local simulations by beginning a systematic effort to develop fully global…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John F. Hawley

A poloidal tilting symmetry of the local nonlinear $\delta f$ gyrokinetic model is demonstrated analytically and verified numerically. This symmetry shows that poloidally rotating all the flux surface shaping effects with large poloidal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Justin Ball , Felix I. Parra , Michael Barnes

First of a kind 6D-Vlasov computer simulations of high frequency ion Bernstein wave turbulence for parameters relevant to the tokamak edge show transport comparable to sub-Larmor-frequency gyrokinetic turbulence. The customary restriction…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Mario Raeth , Klaus Hallatschek

It is shown that a considerable improvement in the global gyrokinetic electromagnetic simulations can be achieved by a slight modification of the simulation scheme. The new scheme is verified, simulating a Toroidal Alfv\'en Eigenmode in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alexey Mishchenko , Axel Könies , Ralf Kleiber , Michael Cole

Electromagnetic particle simulation model has been formulated and verified for nonlinear processes of lower hybrid (LH) waves in fusion plasmas. Electron dynamics is described by the drift kinetic equation using either kinetic momentum or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-06 J. Bao , Z. Lin , A. Kuley , Z. X. Wang

The numerical simulation of turbulence and flows in almost ideal, large-Reynolds-number astrophysical plasmas motivates the implementation of almost conservative MHD computer codes. They should efficiently calculate, use highly parallelized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 J. Skála , F. Baruffa , J. Büchner , M. Rampp

Adopting the theoretical framework for the generalized fishbonelike dispersion relation, an extended hybrid magnetohydrodynamics gyrokinetic simulation model has been derived analytically by taking into account both thermal ion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 X Wang , S Briguglio , L Chen , C Di Troia , G Fogaccia , G Vlad , F Zonca

We report a universal mechanism for turbulence-driven magnetic islands in fusion plasmas. Using gyrokinetic simulations of a linearly stable tearing mode in a large-aspect-ratio toroidal geometry under collisionless conditions, we…

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

High-fidelity scientific simulations are now producing unprecedented amounts of data, creating a storage and analysis bottleneck. A single simulation can generate tremendous data volumes, often forcing researchers to discard valuable…

Understanding plasma instabilities is essential for achieving sustainable fusion energy, with large-scale plasma simulations playing a crucial role in both the design and development of next-generation fusion energy devices and the…

Calculations of tearing mode stability in tokamaks split conveniently into an external region, where marginally stable ideal MHD is applicable, and a resonant layer around the rational surface where sophisticated kinetic physics is needed.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-13 C J Ham , J W Connor , S C Cowley , R J Hastie , T C Hender , Y Q Liu

First-principles simulations of tokamak turbulence have proven to be of great value in recent decades. We develop a pseudo-spectral velocity formulation of the turbulence equations that smoothly interpolates between the highly efficient but…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 N. R. Mandell , W. Dorland , M. Landreman

Recent development of real-time equilibrium code Equinox [1] using a fixed-point algorithm [2] allow major plasma magnetic parameters to be identified in real-time, using rigorous analytical method. The code relies on the boundary flux code…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Krzysztof Bosak , Jacques Blum , Emmanuel Joffrin

Kitaev's toric code is an exactly solvable model with $\mathbb{Z}_2$-topological order, which has potential applications in quantum computation and error correction. However, a direct experimental realization remains an open challenge.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-23 Lukas Homeier , Christian Schweizer , Monika Aidelsburger , Arkady Fedorov , Fabian Grusdt

Recently, the electrostatic gyrokinetic Hamiltonian and change of coordinates have been computed to order $\epsilon^2$ in general magnetic geometry. Here $\epsilon$ is the gyrokinetic expansion parameter, the gyroradius over the macroscopic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ivan Calvo , Felix I. Parra

A subgrid electron-temperature-gradient (ETG) model is demonstrated here which averages local electron-scale turbulence from the GENE code over intermediate scales in space and time to include in global ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) GEM…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Stefan Tirkas , Yang Chen , Scott Parker

The global and electromagnetic gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5 is employed to investigate the self-consistent interactions between Alfv\'en modes (AM) and ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence in a magnetically confined plasma.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 A. Biancalani , A. Bottino , A. Di Siena , F. Jenko , P. Lauber , A. Mishchenko , I. Novikau , L. Villard

In the presented field line map approach the simulation domain of a tokamak is covered with a cylindrical grid, which is Cartesian within poloidal planes. Standard finite-difference methods can be used for the discretisation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 Andreas Stegmeir , David Coster , Omar Maj , Klaus Hallatschek , Karl Lackner

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…