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Title: PLASMA ENERGETIC PARTICLES SIMULATION CENTER (PEPSC)

Abstract

The main effort of the Texas group was to develop theoretical and simplified numerical models to understand chirping phenomena often seen for Alfven and geodesic acoustic waves in experimental plasmas such as D-III-D, NSTX and JET. Its main numerical effort was to modify the AEGIS code, which was originally developed as an eigenvalue solver. To apply to the chirping problem this code has to be able to treat the linear response to the continuum and the response of the plasma to external drive or to an internal drive that comes from the formation of phase space chirping structures. The theoretical underpinning of this investigation still needed to be more fully developed to understand how to best formulate the theoretical problem. Considerable progress was made on this front by B.N. Breizman and his collaborators and a new reduced model was developed by H. L. Berk and his PhD student, G. Wang which can be uses as simplified model to describe chirping in a large aspect ratio tokamak. This final report will concentrate on these two directions that were developed as well as results that were found in the work with the AEGIS code and in the progress in developing a novelmore » quasi-linear formulation for a description of Alfvenic modes destabilized by energetic particles, such as alpha particles in a burning plasma.« less

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
OSTI Identifier:
1132300
Report Number(s):
DOE-UTAUSTIN-ER54988
DOE Contract Number:  
FC02-08ER54988
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; energetic particles, Alfven waves, reduced models, chirping, quasi-linear model, AEGIS,

Citation Formats

Berk, Herbert L. PLASMA ENERGETIC PARTICLES SIMULATION CENTER (PEPSC). United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.2172/1132300.
Berk, Herbert L. PLASMA ENERGETIC PARTICLES SIMULATION CENTER (PEPSC). United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1132300
Berk, Herbert L. 2014. "PLASMA ENERGETIC PARTICLES SIMULATION CENTER (PEPSC)". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1132300. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1132300.
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title = {PLASMA ENERGETIC PARTICLES SIMULATION CENTER (PEPSC)},
author = {Berk, Herbert L.},
abstractNote = {The main effort of the Texas group was to develop theoretical and simplified numerical models to understand chirping phenomena often seen for Alfven and geodesic acoustic waves in experimental plasmas such as D-III-D, NSTX and JET. Its main numerical effort was to modify the AEGIS code, which was originally developed as an eigenvalue solver. To apply to the chirping problem this code has to be able to treat the linear response to the continuum and the response of the plasma to external drive or to an internal drive that comes from the formation of phase space chirping structures. The theoretical underpinning of this investigation still needed to be more fully developed to understand how to best formulate the theoretical problem. Considerable progress was made on this front by B.N. Breizman and his collaborators and a new reduced model was developed by H. L. Berk and his PhD student, G. Wang which can be uses as simplified model to describe chirping in a large aspect ratio tokamak. This final report will concentrate on these two directions that were developed as well as results that were found in the work with the AEGIS code and in the progress in developing a novel quasi-linear formulation for a description of Alfvenic modes destabilized by energetic particles, such as alpha particles in a burning plasma.},
doi = {10.2172/1132300},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Fri May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
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