First implementation of gyrokinetic exact linearized Landau collision operator and comparison with models

Pan, Qingjiang; Ernst, Darin R.; Crandall, Paul

doi:10.1063/1.5143374

First implementation of gyrokinetic exact linearized Landau collision operator and comparison with models

Journal Article · Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5143374· OSTI ID:1799694

Pan, Qingjiang ^[1]; Ernst, Darin R. ^[2]; Crandall, Paul ^[3]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Science and Fusion Center; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

Gyrokinetic simulations are fundamental to understanding and predicting turbulent transport in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Previous simulations have used model collision operators with approximate field-particle terms of unknown accuracy and/or have neglected collisional finite Larmor radius (FLR) effects. We have implemented the linearized Fokker–Planck collision operator with exact field-particle terms and full FLR effects in a gyrokinetic code (GENE). The new operator, referred to as “exact” in this paper, allows the accuracy of model collision operators to be assessed. The conservative Landau form is implemented because its symmetry underlies the conservation laws and the H-theorem, and enables numerical methods to preserve this conservation, independent of resolution. The implementation utilizes the finite-volume method recently employed to discretize the Sugama collision model in GENE, allowing direct comparison between the two operators. Results show that the Sugama model appears accurate for the growth rates of trapped electron modes (TEMs) driven only by density gradients, but appreciably underestimates the growth rates as the collisionality and electron temperature gradient increase. The TEM turbulent fluxes near the nonlinear threshold using the exact operator are similar to the Sugama model for the n_e = d ln T_e/d ln n_e = 0 case, but substantially larger than the Sugama model for the n_e = 1 case. The FLR effects reduce the growth rates increasingly with wavenumber deepening a “valley” at the intermediate binormal wavenumber as the unstable mode extends from the TEM regime to the electron temperature gradient instability regime. Application to the Hinton–Rosenbluth problem shows that zonal flows decay faster as the radial wavenumber increases and the exact operator yields weaker decay rates.

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Research Organization:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FC02-08ER54966; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1799694

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1615074

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 27; ISSN 1070-664X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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