Verification of particle simulation of radio frequency waves in fusion plasmas

Kuley, Animesh; Wang, Z. X.; Lin, Z.; Wessel, F.

doi:10.1063/1.4826507

Title: Verification of particle simulation of radio frequency waves in fusion plasmas

Journal Article · Thu Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4826507· OSTI ID:1565168

Kuley, Animesh ^[1]; Wang, Z. X. ^[2]; Lin, Z. ^[1]; Wessel, F. ^[3]

Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States); Peking Univ., Beijing (China)
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
Tri Alpha Energy, Inc., Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (United States)

Radio frequency (RF) waves can offer heating, current and flow drive, as well as instability control for steady state operations of fusion experiments. A particle simulation model has been designed in this work to provide a first-principles tool for studying the RF nonlinear interactions with plasmas. In this model, ions are considered as fully kinetic particles using the Vlasov equation and electrons are treated as guiding centers using the drift kinetic equation. This model has been implemented in a global gyrokinetic toroidal code using real electron-to-ion mass ratio. To confirm the model, linear simulations of ion plasma oscillation, ion Bernstein wave, and lower hybrid wave are carried out in cylindrical geometry and found to agree well with analytic predictions.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI ID:: 1565168

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 20, Issue 10; ISSN 1070-664X

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

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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