First implementation of gyrokinetic exact linearized Landau collision operator and comparison with models
Abstract
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 ne = d ln Te/d ln ne = 0 case, but substantially larger than themore »
- Authors:
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1799694
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1615074
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FC02-08ER54966; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 27; Journal Issue: 4; 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; Plasma turbulence; Plasma collisions; Finite volume methods; Plasma instabilities; Gyrokinetic simulations
Citation Formats
Pan, Qingjiang, Ernst, Darin R., and Crandall, Paul. First implementation of gyrokinetic exact linearized Landau collision operator and comparison with models. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.5143374.
Pan, Qingjiang, Ernst, Darin R., & Crandall, Paul. First implementation of gyrokinetic exact linearized Landau collision operator and comparison with models. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5143374
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@article{osti_1799694,
title = {First implementation of gyrokinetic exact linearized Landau collision operator and comparison with models},
author = {Pan, Qingjiang and Ernst, Darin R. and Crandall, Paul},
abstractNote = {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 ne = d ln Te/d ln ne = 0 case, but substantially larger than the Sugama model for the ne = 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.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5143374},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 4,
volume = 27,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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