Gyrokinetic particle simulation of a field reversed configuration
Abstract
Gyrokinetic particle simulation of the field-reversed configuration (FRC) has been developed using the gyrokinetic toroidal code (GTC). The magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium is mapped from cylindrical coordinates to Boozer coordinates for the FRC core and scrape-off layer (SOL), respectively. A field-aligned mesh is constructed for solving self-consistent electric fields using a semi-spectral solver in a partial torus FRC geometry. This new simulation capability has been successfully verified and driftwave instability in the FRC has been studied using the gyrokinetic simulation for the first time. Initial GTC simulations find that in the FRC core, the ion-scale driftwave is stabilized by the large ion gyroradius. In the SOL, the driftwave is unstable on both ion and electron scales.
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- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Tri Alpha Energy, Inc., Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1565464
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Physics
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Fulton, D. P., Lau, C. K., Holod, I., Lin, Z., and Dettrick, S. Gyrokinetic particle simulation of a field reversed configuration. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4930289.
Fulton, D. P., Lau, C. K., Holod, I., Lin, Z., & Dettrick, S. Gyrokinetic particle simulation of a field reversed configuration. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4930289
Fulton, D. P., Lau, C. K., Holod, I., Lin, Z., and Dettrick, S. Tue .
"Gyrokinetic particle simulation of a field reversed configuration". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4930289. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1565464.
@article{osti_1565464,
title = {Gyrokinetic particle simulation of a field reversed configuration},
author = {Fulton, D. P. and Lau, C. K. and Holod, I. and Lin, Z. and Dettrick, S.},
abstractNote = {Gyrokinetic particle simulation of the field-reversed configuration (FRC) has been developed using the gyrokinetic toroidal code (GTC). The magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium is mapped from cylindrical coordinates to Boozer coordinates for the FRC core and scrape-off layer (SOL), respectively. A field-aligned mesh is constructed for solving self-consistent electric fields using a semi-spectral solver in a partial torus FRC geometry. This new simulation capability has been successfully verified and driftwave instability in the FRC has been studied using the gyrokinetic simulation for the first time. Initial GTC simulations find that in the FRC core, the ion-scale driftwave is stabilized by the large ion gyroradius. In the SOL, the driftwave is unstable on both ion and electron scales.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4930289},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 1,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Tue Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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