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 …

Kinetic theory of geodesic acoustic modes in toroidal plasmas: a brief review

QIU Zhiyong, C Liu, F Zonca - Plasma Science and Technology, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAM) are oscillating zonal structures unique to toroidal plasmas,
and have been extensively studied in the past decades due to their potential capabilities of …

Gyrokinetic modeling of anisotropic energetic particle driven instabilities in tokamak plasmas

B Rettino, T Hayward-Schneider, A Biancalani… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Energetic particles produced by neutral beams are observed to excite energetic-particle-
driven geodesic acoustic modes in tokamaks. We study the effects of anisotropy of …

Analytic dispersion relation of energetic particle driven geodesic acoustic modes and simulations with NEMORB

D Zarzoso, A Biancalani, A Bottino, P Lauber… - Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent progress regarding the excitation of energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic
modes (EGAMs) in particle-in-cell simulations is presented in this paper. The exact …

Simulation of energetic particle driven geodesic acoustic modes and the energy channeling in the Large Helical Device plasmas

H Wang, Y Todo, M Oasakabe, T Ido, Y Suzuki - Nuclear Fusion, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Energetic particle driven geodesic acoustic modes (EGAMs) in Large Helical Device
plasmas are investigated using MEGA code. MEGA is a hybrid simulation code for energetic …

Experimental investigation of the radial structure of energetic particle driven modes

L Horváth, G Papp, P Lauber, G Pór, A Gude… - Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Alfvén eigenmodes (AEs) and energetic particle modes (EPMs) are often excited by
energetic particles (EPs) in tokamak plasmas. One of the main open questions concerning …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear dynamics of energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic modes in ASDEX Upgrade

I Novikau, A Biancalani, A Bottino, P Lauber, E Poli… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Turbulence in tokamaks generates radially sheared zonal flows. Their oscillatory
counterparts, geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs), appear due to the action of the magnetic …

Gyrokinetic analysis of low-n shear Alfvén and ion sound wave spectra in a high-beta tokamak plasma

A Bierwage, P Lauber - Nuclear Fusion, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Using the linear gyrokinetic code LIGKA, we study the structure of the continuous spectra
$\Omega (\rho)=\omega (\rho)+{\rm i}\gamma (\rho) $ of shear Alfvén waves (SAW) and ion …

Effect of elongation on energetic particle-induced geodesic acoustic mode

A Di Siena, A Biancalani, T Görler, H Doerk… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The effect of the plasma elongation on the energetic-particle-induced geodesic acoustic
mode (EGAM) dynamics is studied with numerical simulations performed with the gyrokinetic …

A branch of energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic modes due to magnetic drift resonance

M Sasaki, N Kasuya, K Itoh, K Hallatschek… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Eigenmode analysis of geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) driven by fast ions is performed,
based on a set of gyrokinetic equations. Resonance to the magnetic drift of the fast ions can …