Electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales
Simulating electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales requires retaining and evolving a complete turbulence modified neoclassical transport description, including all the axisymmetric neoclassical and zonal flow radial electric field effects, as well as the turbulent transport nor...
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| author | Catto, P Simakov, A Parra, F Kagan, G |
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| description | Simulating electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales requires retaining and evolving a complete turbulence modified neoclassical transport description, including all the axisymmetric neoclassical and zonal flow radial electric field effects, as well as the turbulent transport normally associated with drift instabilities. Neoclassical electric field effects are particularly difficult to retain since they require evaluating the ion distribution function to higher order in gyroradius over background scale length than standard gyrokinetic treatments. To avoid extending gyrokinetics an alternate hybrid gyrokinetic-fluid treatment is formulated that employs moments of the full Fokker-Planck kinetic equation to remove the need for a higher order gyrokinetic distribution function. The resulting hybrid description is able to model all electrostatic turbulence effects with wavelengths much longer than an electron Larmor radius such as the ion temperature gradient (ITG) and trapped electron modes (TEM). © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:efea0ca4-cbb0-42a9-99a7-6b805a78b79b2022-03-27T11:43:41ZElectrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scalesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:efea0ca4-cbb0-42a9-99a7-6b805a78b79bEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2008Catto, PSimakov, AParra, FKagan, GSimulating electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales requires retaining and evolving a complete turbulence modified neoclassical transport description, including all the axisymmetric neoclassical and zonal flow radial electric field effects, as well as the turbulent transport normally associated with drift instabilities. Neoclassical electric field effects are particularly difficult to retain since they require evaluating the ion distribution function to higher order in gyroradius over background scale length than standard gyrokinetic treatments. To avoid extending gyrokinetics an alternate hybrid gyrokinetic-fluid treatment is formulated that employs moments of the full Fokker-Planck kinetic equation to remove the need for a higher order gyrokinetic distribution function. The resulting hybrid description is able to model all electrostatic turbulence effects with wavelengths much longer than an electron Larmor radius such as the ion temperature gradient (ITG) and trapped electron modes (TEM). © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd. |
| spellingShingle | Catto, P Simakov, A Parra, F Kagan, G Electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales |
| title | Electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales |
| title_full | Electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales |
| title_fullStr | Electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales |
| title_full_unstemmed | Electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales |
| title_short | Electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales |
| title_sort | electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales |
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