Geodesic acoustic modes in magnetic confinement devices

GD Conway, AI Smolyakov, T Ido - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are ubiquitous oscillatory flow phenomena observed in
toroidal magnetic confinement fusion plasmas, such as tokamaks and stellarators. They are …

L-mode-edge negative triangularity tokamak reactor

M Kikuchi, T Takizuka, S Medvedev, T Ando… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The negative triangularity tokamak (NTT) is a unique reactor concept based on'power-
handling-first'philosophy with the heat exhaust problem as the leading concern. The present …

Three-dimensional inhomogeneity of electron-temperature-gradient turbulence in the edge of tokamak plasmas

JF Parisi, FI Parra, CM Roach, MR Hardman… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Nonlinear multiscale gyrokinetic simulations of a Joint European Torus edge pedestal are
used to show that electron-temperature-gradient (ETG) turbulence has a rich three …

Nonlinear gyrokinetic PIC simulations in stellarators with the code EUTERPE

E Sánchez, A Mishchenko… - Journal of Plasma …, 2020 - cambridge.org
In this work, the first nonlinear particle-in-cell simulations carried out in a stellarator with the
global gyrokinetic code EUTERPE using adiabatic electrons and realistic plasma …

Magnetic sha** effects on turbulence in ADITYA-U tokamak

AK Singh, S Choudhary, MG Krishna… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The work reported in this paper addresses two aspects. In the first part, numerical
simulations are conducted to examine the impact of magnetic equilibrium sha** …

[HTML][HTML] Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence and zonal flows driven by steep profile gradients using a delta-f approach with an evolving background Maxwellian

M Murugappan, L Villard, S Brunner, BF McMillan… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Long global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations are particularly challenging in situations
where the system deviates strongly from its initial state and when fluctuation levels are high …

Investigation of tokamak turbulent avalanches using wave-kinetic formulation in toroidal geometry

C Gillot, G Dif-Pradalier, X Garbet, O Panico… - Journal of Plasma …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The interplay between toroidal drift-wave turbulence and tokamak profiles is investigated
using a wave-kinetic description. The coupled system is used to investigate the interplay …

[HTML][HTML] Gyrokinetic flux-driven simulations in mixed TEM/ITG regime using a delta-f PIC scheme with evolving background

M Murugappan, L Villard, S Brunner… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In the context of global gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence using a particle-in-cell
framework, verifying the delta-f assumption with a fixed background distribution becomes …

Triangularity effects on global flux-driven gyrokinetic simulations

G Di Giannatale, P Donnel, L Villard… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
On the road to fusion energy production, many alternative scenarios have been investigated
in order to address certain well-known problems of tokamak devices; among which …

[HTML][HTML] Complex-Hamiltonian paraxial description of damped geodesic acoustic modes

E Poli, F Palermo, A Bottino, O Maj, H Weber - Physics of Plasmas, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are a fundamental part of turbulence and zonal-flow
dynamics in tokamaks. They exhibit simple yet non-trivial dispersive and dissipative …