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 …

The JOREK non-linear extended MHD code and applications to large-scale instabilities and their control in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

M Hoelzl, GTA Huijsmans, SJP Pamela… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
JOREK is a massively parallel fully implicit non-linear extended magneto-hydrodynamic
(MHD) code for realistic tokamak X-point plasmas. It has become a widely used versatile …

ORB5: a global electromagnetic gyrokinetic code using the PIC approach in toroidal geometry

E Lanti, N Ohana, N Tronko… - Computer Physics …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents the current state of the global gyrokinetic code Orb 5 as an update of the
previous reference (Jolliet et al., 2007). The Orb 5 code solves the electromagnetic Vlasov …

[HTML][HTML] EUTERPE: A global gyrokinetic code for stellarator geometry

R Kleiber, M Borchardt, R Hatzky, A Könies… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
The current state of the EUTERPE code is described with emphasis on the implemented
models and their numerical implementation. The code solves the multi-species …

Pullback scheme implementation in ORB5

A Mishchenko, A Bottino, A Biancalani, R Hatzky… - Computer Physics …, 2019 - Elsevier
The pullback scheme is implemented in the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5
(Jolliet et al., 2007 [1]) to mitigate the cancellation problem in electromagnetic simulations …

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 investigation of Alfvén instabilities in the presence of turbulence

A Biancalani, A Bottino, A Di Siena… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The nonlinear dynamics of beta-induced Alfvén eigenmodes (BAEs) driven by energetic
particles (EPs) in the presence of ion-temperature-gradient turbulence is investigated, by …

A linear benchmark between HYMAGYC, MEGA and ORB5 codes using the NLED-AUG test case to study Alfvénic modes driven by energetic particles

G Vlad, X Wang, F Vannini, S Briguglio… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the major challenges in magnetic confinement thermonuclear fusion research
concerns the confinement of the energetic particles (EPs) produced by fusion reactions …

MHD-kinetic hybrid code based on structure-preserving finite elements with particles-in-cell

F Holderied, S Possanner, X Wang - Journal of Computational Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract We present a STRUcture-Preserving HYbrid code-STRUPHY-for the simulation of
magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) waves interacting with a population of energetic particles far …

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 …