Gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in the presence of fast particles and global modes

A Mishchenko, A Bottino… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Global simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in circular-flux-surface tokamak and
ASDEX-Upgrade geometry, tearing instabilities and their combination with the …

Numerical tools for burning plasmas

A Mishchenko, A Biancalani, M Borchardt… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The software stack under development within a European coordinated effort on tools for
burning plasma modelling is presented. The project is organised as a Task (TSVV Task 10) …

Enhanced Transport at High Plasma Pressure and Subthreshold Kinetic Ballooning Modes in Wendelstein 7-X

P Mulholland, K Aleynikova, BJ Faber, MJ Pueschel… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
High-performance fusion plasmas, requiring high pressure β, are not well understood in
stellarator-type experiments. Here, the effect of β on ion-temperature-gradient-driven (ITG) …

Nonlinear interaction of Alfvénic instabilities and turbulence via the modification of the equilibrium profiles

A Biancalani, A Bottino, D Del Sarto… - Journal of Plasma …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Nonlinear simulations of Alfvén modes (AMs) driven by energetic particles (EPs) in the
presence of turbulence are performed with the gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5. The …

Global gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in stellarator plasmas

A Mishchenko, M Borchardt, R Hatzky… - Journal of Plasma …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Global electromagnetic turbulence is simulated in stellarator geometry using the gyrokinetic
particle-in-cell code EUTERPE. The evolution of the turbulent electromagnetic field and the …

Role of secondary long wavelength fluctuation in nonlinear saturation of the kinetic ballooning mode in tokamak plasmas

G Ren, J Li, L Wei, ZX Wang - Nuclear Fusion, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Nonlinear saturation dynamics of electromagnetic turbulence and associated transport are
investigated using a global simulation based on the Landau-fluid model in the finite β …

Ion temperature gradient mode mitigation by energetic particles, mediated by forced-driven zonal flows

JN Sama, A Biancalani, A Bottino, D Del Sarto… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work, we use the global electromagnetic and electrostatic gyro kinetic approaches to
investigate the effects of zonal flows forced-driven by Alfv\'en modes due to their excitation …

Plasma beta dependence of turbulent transport suggesting an advantage of weak magnetic shear from local and global gyrokinetic simulations

A Ishizawa, Y Kishimoto, K Imadera, Y Nakamura… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
A higher plasma β is desirable for realizing high performance fusion reactor, in fact, one of
the three goals of JT-60SA project is to achieve a high-β regime. We investigate key physical …

Finite-β turbulence in Wendelstein 7-X enhanced by sub-threshold kinetic ballooning modes

P Mulholland, MJ Pueschel, JHE Proll… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic fluctuations affecting turbulence and transport, which are manifest at finite
normalized plasma pressure β, pose a significant challenge to magnetic confinement fusion …

Signatures of an energetic charged body streaming in a plasma

V Dharodi, A Kumar, A Sen - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
A charged body moving in a plasma can excite a variety of linear and nonlinear waves in the
form of trailing wakes, fore-wake shocks, and precursor solitons. These structures can further …