Gyrokinetic simulations
The gyrokinetic formalism [1][2] is based on first principles and provides a valuable tool for investigating low frequency turbulence in fusion plasmas. The Theory Group at the Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión collaborates with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the Max Planck IPP at Greifswald for the development and exploitation of the EUTERPE global gyrokinetic code.
The code EUTERPE has recently been benchmarked against the TORB code [3][4] in both linear and non-linear simulations [5].
References
- ↑ T. S. Hahm. Nonlinear gyrokinetic equations for tokamak microturbulence. Physics of Fluids 31, 2670, 1988.
- ↑ A. J. Brizard and T. S. Hahm. Foundations of nonlinear gyrokinetic theory. Reviews of Modern Physics 2, 421, 2007.
- ↑ Hatzky, R Tran, TM Konies, A Kleiber, R Allfrey, SJ .Energy conservation in a nonlinear gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code for ion-temperature-gradient-driven modes in theta-pinch geometry. PHYSICS OF PLASMAS, 9- 3,p. 912,2002.
- ↑ C. N¨uhrenberg, R. Hatzky, S. Sorge, et al. Global ITG Turbulence in Screw-Pinch Geometry. IAEA TM on Innovative Concepts and Theory of Stellarators, Madrid 2005
- ↑ Edilberto Sánchez , Ralf Kleiber, Roman Hatzky, Alejandro Soba, Xavier Sáez, Francisco Castejón and Jose M. Cela. Linear and non-linear simulations using the EUTERPE gyrokinetic code. To appear in IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science (2010)