In this work, we report a novel gyrokinetic simulation method named numerical Lie transform
(NLT), which depends on a new physical model derived from the I-transform theory. In this …

The electrostatic gyrokinetic nonlinear turbulence code NLT, which is based on a numerical
Lie-transform perturbation method, is developed. For improving the computational efficiency …

The rarefactive KdV solitary waves in a dusty plasma have been extensively studied
analytically and found experimentally in the previous works. Though the envelope solitary …

This paper reports the verification and validation of a new gyrokinetic (GK) code, numerical
Lie transform (NLT), for electrostatic turbulence simulation in tokamak plasmas. Based on …

Geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) is analyzed by using modified gyro-kinetic (MGK) equation
applicable to low-frequency microinstabilities in a rotating axisymmetric plasma. Dispersion …

The computation efficiency of high dimensional (3D and 4D) B-spline interpolation,
constructed by classical tensor product method, is improved greatly by precomputing the B …

Zonal flows (ZFs) in a tokamak plasma with anisotropic pressure are investigated. The
dynamics of perpendicular and parallel pressures are determined by the Chew-Goldberger …

Field-aligned coordinates have been implemented in the gyrokinetic semi-Lagrangian code
NLT, Ye et al (2016 J. Comput. Phys. 316 180), to improve the computational efficiency for …

A guiding center orbit following code, which incorporates a set of non-singular coordinates
for orbit integration, was developed and applied to investigate the alpha particle heating in …

The geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are analytically investigated in toroidally rotating
tokamak plasmas with impurity ions such as carbon and tungsten by using the gyrokinetic …