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 …

Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulent transport

X Garbet, Y Idomura, L Villard, TH Watanabe - Nuclear Fusion, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This overview is an assessment of the gyrokinetic framework and simulations to compute
turbulent transport in fusion plasmas. It covers an introduction to the gyrokinetic theory, the …

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 …

Global gyrokinetic simulations of electrostatic microturbulent transport in LHD stellarator with boron impurity

T Singh, JH Nicolau, F Nespoli, G Motojima, Z Lin… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Global gyrokinetic simulations of electrostatic microturbulent transport for discharge#
166256 of the Large Helical Device stellarator in the presence of boron impurity show the co …

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 …

Nonlinear gyrokinetic PIC simulations in stellarators with the code EUTERPE

E Sánchez, A Mishchenko… - Journal of Plasma …, 2020 - cambridge.org
In this work, the first nonlinear particle-in-cell simulations carried out in a stellarator with the
global gyrokinetic code EUTERPE using adiabatic electrons and realistic plasma …

Global gyrokinetic simulations of electrostatic microturbulent transport using kinetic electrons in LHD stellarator

T Singh, JH Nicolau, Z Lin, S Sharma, A Sen… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Global gyrokinetic simulations of ion temperature gradient (ITG) and trapped electron mode
(TEM) in the LHD stellarator are carried out using the gyrokinetic toroidal code (GTC) with …

Gyrokinetic simulations in stellarators using different computational domains

E Sánchez, JM García-Regaña, AB Navarro… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we compare gyrokinetic simulations in stellarators using different computational
domains, namely, flux tube (FT), full-flux-surface (FFS), and radially global (RG) domains …

Gyrokinetic Vlasov code including full three-dimensional geometry of experiments

M Nunami, TH Watanabe, H Sugama - Plasma and Fusion Research, 2010 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Anomalous transport of particles, momentum, and heat is commonly observed in fusion
plasma experiments, and has been a central issue in magnetic fusion research for the last …