Self-consistent particle tracking in a simulation of the entropy mode in a Z pinch
- Department of Physics, CSCAMM, University of Maryland, College Park 20742 (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
A single particle tracking technique for studying nondiffusive transport is implemented in a new particle-in-cell gyrokinetic simulation of the entropy mode in a Z pinch geometry. Radial transport is characterized in terms of the time dependence of the variance of displacements. The vertical zonal flow dynamics of the nonlinear phase of the instability seem to cause subdiffusive transport for ions during the simulation lengths used here. Electrons follow subdiffusive transport, except for later times in the case of the largest gradient, where the transport becomes superdiffusive. The probability distribution of displacements shows a positive skew and long tails relative to the Gaussian distribution for both ions and electrons.
- OSTI ID:
- 21251746
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1069, Issue 1; Conference: Joint Varenna-Lausanne international workshop on theory of fusion plasmas, Varenna (Italy), 25-29 Aug 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3033713; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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