A flexible gyro-fluid system of equations
Gyro-fluid equations are velocity space moments of the gyrokinetic equations. Special gyro-Landau-fluid closures have been developed that include the damping due to kinetic resonances by fitting to the collisionless local plasma response functions. This damping allows for accurate linear eigenmodes to be computed with a relatively low number of velocity space moments compared to the number of velocity quadrature points in gyrokinetic codes. However, none of the published gyro-Landau-fluid closure schemes considers the Onsager symmetries of the resulting quasi-linear fluxes as a constraint. Onsager symmetry guarantees that the matrix of diffusivities is positive definite, an important property for the numerical stability of a transport solver. A two-parameter real closure for improving the accuracy of low-resolution gyro-fluid equations, which preserves the Onsager symmetry and allows higher velocity space moments, is presented in this paper. The new linear gyro-fluid system (GFS) is used to extend the TGLF quasi-linear transport model so that it can compute the energy and momentum fluxes due to parallel magnetic fluctuations, completing the transport matrix. The GFS equations do not use a bounce average approximation. The GFS equations are fully electromagnetic with general flux surface magnetic geometry, pitch angle scattering for electron collisions, and subsonic equilibrium toroidal rotation. Using GFS eigenmodes in the quasi-linear TGLF model will be shown to yield a more accurate match to fluxes computed by CGYRO turbulence simulations. In conclusion, prospects for future applications of a quasi-linear theory to new plasma transport regimes and magnetic confinement devices in addition to tokamaks are opened by the flexibility of the GFS eigensolver.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; FG02-95ER54309
- OSTI ID:
- 2007727
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 30, Issue 10; Conference: 2023 Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Knoxville, TN (United States), 8-10 May 2023; Related Information: https://pubs.aip.org/pop/collection/13392/Papers-from-the-2023-Sherwood-Fusion-Theory; ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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