Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation of Compressible Electromagnetic Turbulence in High-β Plasmas
Supported by this award, the PI and his research group at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have carried out computational and theoretical studies of instability, turbulence, and transport in laboratory and space plasmas. Several massively parallel, gyrokinetic particle simulation codes have been developed to study electromagnetic turbulence in space and laboratory plasmas. In space plasma projects, the simulation codes have been successfully applied to study the spectral cascade and plasma heating in kinetic Alfven wave turbulence, the linear and nonlinear properties of compressible modes including mirror instability and drift compressional mode, and the stability of the current sheet instabilities with finite guide field in the context of collisionless magnetic reconnection. The research results have been published in 25 journal papers and presented at many national and international conferences. Reprints of publications, source codes, and other research-related information are also available to general public on the PI’s webpage (http://phoenix.ps.uci.edu/zlin/). Two PhD theses in space plasma physics are highlighted in this report.
- Research Organization:
- UC Regents
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE SC Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (SC-24)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0002444
- OSTI ID:
- 1123141
- Report Number(s):
- 241.3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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