GX: a GPU-native gyrokinetic turbulence code for tokamak and stellarator design

NR Mandell, W Dorland, I Abel, R Gaur… - Journal of Plasma …, 2024 - cambridge.org
GX is a code designed to solve the nonlinear gyrokinetic system for low-frequency
turbulence in magnetized plasmas, particularly tokamaks and stellarators. In GX, our primary …

Local gyrokinetic simulations of tokamaks with non-uniform magnetic shear

J Ball, S Brunner - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we modify the standard flux tube simulation domain to include arbitrary ion
gyroradius-scale variation in the radial profile of the safety factor. To determine how to …

Suppression of temperature-gradient-driven turbulence by sheared flows in fusion plasmas

PG Ivanov, T Adkins, D Kennedy, M Giacomin… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Starting from the assumption that saturation of plasma turbulence driven by temperature-
gradient instabilities in fusion plasmas is achieved by a local energy cascade between a …

Nonlinear second order electromagnetic gyrokinetic theory for a tokamak plasma

AV Dudkovskaia, HR Wilson, JW Connor… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The steep plasma pressure gradient that forms at the edge of the high confinement, H-mode
regime of tokamak operation provides free energy to drive electromagnetic micro …

Quantifying the role of higher order neoclassical corrections to gyrokinetics in tokamak plasmas

AV Dudkovskaia, JW Connor… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantifying the role of higher order neoclassical corrections to gyrokinetics in tokamak plasmas
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A phase-shift-periodic parallel boundary condition for low-magnetic-shear scenarios

DA St-Onge, M Barnes, FI Parra - Plasma Physics and Controlled …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We formulate a generalized periodic boundary condition as a limit of the standard twist-and-
shift parallel boundary condition that is suitable for simulations of plasmas with low magnetic …