Geodesic acoustic modes in magnetic confinement devices

GD Conway, AI Smolyakov, T Ido - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are ubiquitous oscillatory flow phenomena observed in
toroidal magnetic confinement fusion plasmas, such as tokamaks and stellarators. They are …

Stellarator and tokamak plasmas: a comparison

P Helander, CD Beidler, TM Bird… - Plasma Physics and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
An overview is given of physics differences between stellarators and tokamaks, including
magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium, stability, fast-ion physics, plasma rotation, neoclassical …

Quasi-isodynamic stellarators with low turbulence as fusion reactor candidates

AG Goodman, P Xanthopoulos, GG Plunk, H Smith… - PRX Energy, 2024 - APS
The stellarator is a type of fusion energy device that—if properly designed—could provide
clean, safe, and abundant energy to the grid. To generate this energy, a stellarator must …

[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 …

Theory of self-generated vortex flows in a tokamak magnetic island

GJ Choi - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2024 - Springer
We present a gyrokinetic theory of an E× B vortex flow in a magnetic island self-generated
from turbulence in a collisionless tokamak plasma. We have found that after fast collisionless …

Global gyrokinetic simulations of ITG turbulence in the magnetic configuration space of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator

AB Navarro, G Merlo, GG Plunk… - Plasma Physics and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the effect of turbulent transport in different magnetic configurations of the
Weldenstein 7-X stellarator. In particular, we performed direct numerical simulations with the …

Gyrokinetic turbulent transport simulation of a high ion temperature plasma in large helical device experiment

M Nunami, TH Watanabe, H Sugama, K Tanaka - Physics of Plasmas, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Ion temperature gradient turbulent transport in the large helical device (LHD) is investigated
by means of gyrokinetic simulations in comparison with the experimental density fluctuation …

[HTML][HTML] Theory of ITG turbulent saturation in stellarators: identifying mechanisms to reduce turbulent transport

CC Hegna, PW Terry, BJ Faber - Physics of Plasmas, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A three-field fluid model that allows for general three-dimensional equilibrium geometry is
developed to describe ion temperature gradient turbulent saturation processes in …

A reduced model for ion temperature gradient turbulent transport in helical plasmas

M Nunami, TH Watanabe, H Sugama - Physics of Plasmas, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
A novel reduced model for ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulent transport in helical
plasmas is presented. The model enables one to predict nonlinear gyrokinetic simulation …

Long term vortex flow evolution around a magnetic island in tokamaks

GJ Choi, TS Hahm - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We present a gyrokinetic analysis of the vortex flow evolution in a magnetic island in
collisionless tokamak plasmas. In a short term ω¯ D t< 1, where ω¯ D is the secular …