A fully non-linear multi-species Fokker–Planck–Landau collision operator for simulation of fusion plasma
Abstract
Fusion edge plasmas can be far from thermal equilibrium and require the use of a non-linear collision operator for accurate numerical simulations. The non-linear single-species Fokker–Planck–Landau collision operator developed by Yoon and Chang (2014) [9] is generalized to include multiple particle species. Moreover, 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. As a result, the collision operator's good weak and strong scaling behavior are shown.
- Authors:
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- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1254653
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1295136; OSTI ID: 1325292
- Report Number(s):
- PPPL-5253
Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9991; PII: S0021999116300298
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-09CH11466; AC05-00OR22725; SC0008449; AC02-06CH11357; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Computational Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 315; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9991
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; plasma; fusion; collision operator; XGC; particle-in-cell; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
Citation Formats
Hager, Robert, Yoon, E. S., Ku, S., D'Azevedo, E. F., Worley, P. H., and Chang, C. S. A fully non-linear multi-species Fokker–Planck–Landau collision operator for simulation of fusion plasma. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2016.03.064.
Hager, Robert, Yoon, E. S., Ku, S., D'Azevedo, E. F., Worley, P. H., & Chang, C. S. A fully non-linear multi-species Fokker–Planck–Landau collision operator for simulation of fusion plasma. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2016.03.064
Hager, Robert, Yoon, E. S., Ku, S., D'Azevedo, E. F., Worley, P. H., and Chang, C. S. Mon .
"A fully non-linear multi-species Fokker–Planck–Landau collision operator for simulation of fusion plasma". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2016.03.064. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1254653.
@article{osti_1254653,
title = {A fully non-linear multi-species Fokker–Planck–Landau collision operator for simulation of fusion plasma},
author = {Hager, Robert and Yoon, E. S. and Ku, S. and D'Azevedo, E. F. and Worley, P. H. and Chang, C. S.},
abstractNote = {Fusion edge plasmas can be far from thermal equilibrium and require the use of a non-linear collision operator for accurate numerical simulations. The non-linear single-species Fokker–Planck–Landau collision operator developed by Yoon and Chang (2014) [9] is generalized to include multiple particle species. Moreover, 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. As a result, the collision operator's good weak and strong scaling behavior are shown.},
doi = {10.1016/j.jcp.2016.03.064},
journal = {Journal of Computational Physics},
number = C,
volume = 315,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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