Energetic particle physics in fusion research in preparation for burning plasma experiments

NN Gorelenkov, SD Pinches, K Toi - Nuclear Fusion, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The area of energetic particle (EP) physics in fusion research has been actively and
extensively researched in recent decades. The progress achieved in advancing and …

Introduction to the interaction between energetic particles and Alfvén eigenmodes in toroidal plasmas

Y Todo - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2018 - Springer
This article is a tutorial review of the interaction between energetic particles and Alfvén
eigenmodes (AEs) which is one of the important research issues for fusion burning plasmas …

Super-thermal particles in hot plasmas—Kinetic models, numerical solution strategies, and comparison to tokamak experiments

P Lauber - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
The excitation of collective instabilities by super-thermal particles in hot plasmas and the
related transport processes attract increasing interest due to their fundamental challenges …

Nonlinear electromagnetic interplay between fast ions and ion-temperature-gradient plasma turbulence

A Di Siena, T Görler, E Poli, AB Navarro… - Journal of Plasma …, 2021 - cambridge.org
In strong electromagnetic regimes, gyrokinetic simulations have linked a substantial ion-
scale turbulence stabilization to the presence of supra-thermal particles, capturing …

Gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in the presence of fast particles and global modes

A Mishchenko, A Bottino… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Global simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in circular-flux-surface tokamak and
ASDEX-Upgrade geometry, tearing instabilities and their combination with the …

Gyrokinetic simulations of mesoscale energetic particle-driven Alfvénic turbulent transport embedded in microturbulence

EM Bass, RE Waltz - Physics of Plasmas, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Energetic particle (EP) transport from local high-n toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) and
energetic particle modes (EPMs) is simulated with a gyrokinetic code. Linear and nonlinear …

Pullback transformation in gyrokinetic electromagnetic simulations

A Mishchenko, A Könies, R Kleiber, M Cole - Physics of Plasmas, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
It is shown that a considerable mitigation of the cancellation problem can be achieved by a
slight modification of the simulation scheme. The new scheme is verified, simulating a …

Benchmark of gyrokinetic, kinetic MHD and gyrofluid codes for the linear calculation of fast particle driven TAE dynamics

A Könies, S Briguglio, N Gorelenkov, T Fehér… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Fast particles in fusion plasmas may drive Alfvén modes unstable leading to fluctuations of
the internal electromagnetic fields and potential loss of particles. Such instabilities can have …

Numerical tools for burning plasmas

A Mishchenko, A Biancalani, M Borchardt… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The software stack under development within a European coordinated effort on tools for
burning plasma modelling is presented. The project is organised as a Task (TSVV Task 10) …

Gyrokinetic particle simulations of reversed shear Alfvén eigenmode excited by antenna and fast ions

W Deng, Z Lin, I Holod, X Wang, Y Xiao… - Physics of Plasmas, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Global gyrokinetic particle simulations of reversed shear Alfvén eigenmode (RSAE) have
been successfully performed and verified. We have excited the RSAE by initial perturbation …