A fully non-linear multi-species Fokker–Planck–Landau collision operator for simulation of fusion plasma
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543 (United States)
Fusion edge plasmas can be far from thermal equilibrium and require the use of a non-linear collision operator for accurate numerical simulations. In this article, the non-linear single-species Fokker–Planck–Landau collision operator developed by Yoon and Chang (2014) [9] is generalized to include multiple particle species. The finite volume discretization used in this work naturally yields exact conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. The implementation of this new non-linear Fokker–Planck–Landau operator in the gyrokinetic particle-in-cell codes XGC1 and XGCa is described and results of a verification study are discussed. Finally, the numerical techniques that make our non-linear collision operator viable on high-performance computing systems are described, including specialized load balancing algorithms and nested OpenMP parallelization. The collision operator's good weak and strong scaling behavior are shown.
- OSTI ID:
- 22572321
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Computational Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Computational Physics Vol. 315; ISSN 0021-9991; ISSN JCTPAH
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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