Nonlinear equilibria and transport processes in burning plasmas

MV Falessi, L Chen, Z Qiu, F Zonca - New Journal of Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we put forward a general phase space transport theory in axisymmetric tokamak
plasmas based upon the concept of zonal state (ZS). Within this theoretical framework, the …

Nonlinear drift-wave and energetic particle long-time behaviour in stellarators: solution of the kinetic problem

A Zocco, A Mishchenko, A Könies, M Falessi… - Journal of Plasma …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We propose a theoretical scheme for the study of the nonlinear interaction of drift-wave-like
turbulence and energetic particles in stellarators. The approach is based on gyrokinetics …

Energetic particles transport in constants of motion space due to collisions in tokamak plasmas

G Meng, P Lauber, Z Lu, A Bergmann… - Nuclear fusion, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The spatio-temporal evolution of the energetic particles in the transport time scale in
tokamak plasmas is a key issue of the plasmas confinement, especially in burning plasmas …

[HTML][HTML] Verification of electromagnetic simulation capabilities in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code GTS

EA Startsev, W Wang, MG Yoo, J Chen, S Ethier - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, the numerical scheme presented by Mishchenko et al.[Phys. Plasmas 21, 052113
(2014); 21, 092110 (2014)] enabled explicit gyrokinetic simulations of low-frequency …

[HTML][HTML] Gyrokinetic simulations of neoclassical electron transport and bootstrap current generation in tokamak plasmas in the TRIMEG code

L Rekhviashvili, Z Lu, M Hoelzl, A Bergmann… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
For magnetic confinement fusion in tokamak plasmas, some of the limitations to the particle
and energy confinement times are caused by turbulence and collisions between particles in …

Gyrokinetic Electromagnetic Particle Simulations in Triangular Meshes with C1 Finite Elements

Z Lu, G Meng, R Hatzky… - Plasma Physics and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The triangular mesh-based gyrokinetic scheme enables comprehensive axis-to-edge
studies across the entire plasma volume. Our approach employs triangular finite elements …

High-order stochastic integration schemes for the Rosenbluth-Trubnikov collision operator in particle simulations

Z Lu, G Meng, T Tyranowski, A Chankin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.03856, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this study, we consider a numerical implementation of the nonlinear Rosenbluth-
Trubnikov collision operator for particle simulations in plasma physics in the framework of …

[PDF][PDF] Theoretical, Numerical, and Experimental Studies of Advanced Transport Models for Energetic Particles

G Meng, P Lauber, Z Lu, MV Falessi, J Bao… - 50th EPS Conference …, 2024 - lac913.epfl.ch
Energetic particle (EP) transport exhibits multiple spatio-temporal scales and nonlinear
behaviors. Electromagnetic kinetic effects, EP anisotropy, symmetry breaking and nonlinear …

[PDF][PDF] Studies of Collision Operators and Applications in Tokamak Plasmas

L Rekhviashvili - 2023 - pure.mpg.de
For magnetic confinement fusion in Tokamak plasma, some of the limitations to particle and
energy confinement time are caused by turbulence and collisions between particles, which …

[PDF][PDF] Piecewise Field-Aligned Finite Element Method for Multi-Mode Nonlinear Particle Simulations

ZX Lu, G Meng, E Sonnendrücker, R Hatzky… - 8th Asia-Pacific …, 2024 - aappsdpp.org
Nonlinear kinetic effects play a crucial role in determining plasma confinement and require
efficient and accurate multi-mode nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations. The piecewise field …