A gyrokinetic one-dimensional scrape-off layer model of an edge-localized mode heat pulse

Shi, E. L.; Hakim, A. H.; Hammett, G. W.

doi:10.1063/1.4907160

Title: A gyrokinetic one-dimensional scrape-off layer model of an edge-localized mode heat pulse

Journal Article · Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4907160· OSTI ID:1254745

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Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)

An electrostatic gyrokinetic-based model is applied to simulate parallel plasma transport in the scrape-off layer to a divertor plate. We focus on a test problem that has been studied previously, using parameters chosen to model a heat pulse driven by an edge-localized mode in JET. Previous work has used direct particle-in-cellequations with full dynamics, or Vlasov or fluid equations with only parallel dynamics. With the use of the gyrokinetic quasineutrality equation and logical sheathboundary conditions, spatial and temporal resolution requirements are no longer set by the electron Debye length and plasma frequency, respectively. Finally, this test problem also helps illustrate some of the physics contained in the Hamiltonian form of the gyrokineticequations and some of the numerical challenges in developing an edge gyrokinetic code.

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Research Organization:: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-09CH11466

OSTI ID:: 1254745

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1228512

Report Number(s):: PPPL-5110; PHPAEN

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 22, Issue 2; ISSN 1070-664X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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