Nonlocal effects in negative triangularity TCV plasmas

G Merlo, Z Huang, C Marini, S Brunner… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Global gradient driven gyrokinetic simulations performed with the Gyrokinetic
Electromagnetic Numerical Experiment (GENE) code are used to investigate Tokamak à …

ITB formation in gyrokinetic flux-driven ITG/TEM turbulence

K Imadera, Y Kishimoto - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The formation mechanism of internal transport barriers (ITBs) in flux-driven turbulence is
studied by means of the full-f gyrokinetic code GKNET. In the adiabatic electron case with a …

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 …

Global electromagnetic turbulence simulations of W7-X-like plasmas with GENE-3D

F Wilms, AB Navarro, G Merlo, L Leppin… - Journal of Plasma …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The GENE-3D code, the global stellarator version of the established GENE framework, has
been extended to an electromagnetic gyrokinetic code. This paper outlines the basic …

Effects of magnetic island on profile formation in flux-driven ITG turbulence

M Muto, K Imadera, Y Kishimoto - Physics of Plasmas, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Full-f gyrokinetic simulations of ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence in the presence of
a magnetic island are performed. A newly developed method for evaluating the flux-surface …

Global turbulence features across marginality and non-local pedestal-core interactions

L Villard, BF McMillan, E Lanti, N Ohana… - Plasma Physics and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatially non-local aspects of turbulent transport in tokamak plasmas are examined with
global gyrokinetic simulations using the ORB5 code. Inspired by very accurate …

[HTML][HTML] Linear and nonlinear dynamics of self-consistent collisionless tearing modes in toroidal gyrokinetic simulations

F Widmer, E Poli, A Mishchenko, A Ishizawa… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate tearing modes (TM) driven by current density gradient in collisionless
tokamak plasmas by using the electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulation code ORB5. We …

[HTML][HTML] Gyrokinetic flux-driven simulations in mixed TEM/ITG regime using a delta-f PIC scheme with evolving background

M Murugappan, L Villard, S Brunner… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In the context of global gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence using a particle-in-cell
framework, verifying the delta-f assumption with a fixed background distribution becomes …

Exact nonlinear solutions for three-dimensional Alfvén-wave packets in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics

A Mallet, BDG Chandran - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2021 - cambridge.org
We show that large-amplitude, non-planar, Alfvén-wave (AW) packets are exact nonlinear
solutions of the relativistic magnetohydrodynamic equations when the total magnetic-field …

Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence in magnetic fusion plasmas using a delta-f PIC scheme with evolving background

M Murugappan - 2024 - infoscience.epfl.ch
Using the GKEngine code which simulates an electrostatic plasma with adiabatic electron
response under a sheared-slab geometry, an attempt at developing a hybrid approach …