A gyrokinetic one-dimensional scrape-off layer model of an edge-localized mode heat pulse
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1254745
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1228512
- Report Number(s):
- PPPL-5110
Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X; PHPAEN
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-09CH11466
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 22; Journal Issue: 2; 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; Plasma gyrokinetics; Poisson's equation; Electrostatic waves; Boundary value problems; Boltzmann equations
Citation Formats
Shi, E. L., Hakim, A. H., and Hammett, G. W. A gyrokinetic one-dimensional scrape-off layer model of an edge-localized mode heat pulse. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4907160.
Shi, E. L., Hakim, A. H., & Hammett, G. W. A gyrokinetic one-dimensional scrape-off layer model of an edge-localized mode heat pulse. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4907160
Shi, E. L., Hakim, A. H., and Hammett, G. W. 2015.
"A gyrokinetic one-dimensional scrape-off layer model of an edge-localized mode heat pulse". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4907160. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1254745.
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abstractNote = {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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year = {Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2015},
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