Gyrofluid Simulation of Ion-Scale Turbulence in Tokamak Plasmas

Gyrofluid Simulation of Ion-Scale Turbulence in Tokamak Plasmas

Year:    2008

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 4 (2008), Iss. 5 : pp. 1245–1257

Abstract

An improved three-field gyrofluid model is proposed to numerically simulate ion-scale turbulence in tokamak plasmas, which includes the nonlinear evolution of perturbed electrostatic potential, parallel ion velocity and ion pressure with adiabatic electron response. It is benchmarked through advancing a gyrofluid toroidal global (GFT_G) code as well as the local version (GFT_L), with the emphasis of the collisionless damping of zonal flows. The nonlinear equations are solved by using Fourier decomposition in poloidal and toroidal directions and semi-implicit finite difference method along radial direction. The numerical implementation is briefly explained, especially on the periodic boundary condition in GFT_L version. As a numerical test and also practical application, the nonlinear excitation of geodesic acoustic mode (GAM), as well as its radial structure, is investigated in tokamak plasma turbulence.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/2008-CiCP-7836

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 4 (2008), Iss. 5 : pp. 1245–1257

Published online:    2008-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    13

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