Gyrokinetic turbulence simulations with fully kinetic electrons

Author

Chen, Yang ; Jones, Samuel T. ; Parker, Scott E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA

Volume

30

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

75

Abstract

It is now possible to include kinetic electron physics in low-beta gyrokinetic simulations of tokamak plasma turbulence. These are three-dimensional (3-D) toroidal simulations using gyrokinetic ions and drift-kinetic electrons. Including electrons increases the linear growth rate and nonlinear energy transport for typical H-mode parameters. Here, we briefly discuss our results and low-cost high-performance stereoscopic visualization techniques for analyzing the large-scale 3-D gyrokinetic turbulence simulation data

Keywords

Tokamak devices; plasma kinetic theory; plasma simulation; plasma turbulence; H-mode parameters; drift-kinetic electrons; fully kinetic electrons; gyrokinetic ions; large-scale 3-D gyrokinetic turbulence simulation; linear growth rate; nonlinear energy transport; stereoscopic visualization; three-dimensional toroidal simulations; tokamak plasma turbulence; Cameras; Data visualization; Electrons; Geometry; Kinetic theory; Physics; Plasma simulation; Polarization; Rendering (computer graphics); Tokamaks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPS.2002.1003930

Filename

1003930