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Linear analysis of the effect of shaping on trapped electron mode instability: from a reduced model to gyro-kinetics

Experiments have shown that negative triangularity (NT) configurations in tokamak plasmas exhibit good confinement properties associated to reduced turbulent transport. Trapped electron modes (TEMs) have proven to be particularly sensitive to this …

Global gyrokinetic study of lithium core turbulent transport with and without transport barrier

Although modern fusion devices consider the use of lithium as a plasma-facing component, its transport mechanism remains under-investigated, being different from those heavy impurities such tungsten. For and other light impurities, turbulent …

Local cubic spline interpolation for Vlasov-type equations on a multi-patch geometry.

Abstract We present a semi-Lagrangian method for the numerical resolution of Vlasov-type equations on multi-patch meshes. Following N. Crouseilles et al. [ A parallel Vlasov solver based local cubic spline interpolation patches. Journal Computational …

Electromagnetic version of the flux-driven full-F global gyrokinetic code GYSELA

DDC: The Discrete Domain Computation library

Gyselalib++: A Portable C++ Library for Semi-Lagrangian Kinetic and Gyrokinetic Simulations

Gyselalib++ provides the mathematical building blocks to construct kinetic or gyrokinetic plasma simulation codes in C++, simulating a distribution function discretised phase space on fixed grid. It relies Discrete Domain Computation (DDC) library …

Interplay between ion temperature gradient and parallel velocity gradient instabilities in cylindrical geometry: Water-bag vs 5D gyrokinetics

We investigate the interplay between ion temperature gradient (ITG) and parallel velocity (PVG) instabilities in cylindrical geometry using a Water-bag model 5D gyrokinetic simulations with modified version of GYSELA code. The provides an analytical …

Controlling impurity transport in 5D gyrokinetic simulations using a transport barrier

Abstract The effects of transport barriers on impurity transport, specifically helium (He) and tungsten (W), are investigated using the global, flux-driven, full-F, 5D gyrokinetic code GYSELA. barrier is induced by triggering E×B shear via an …

Investigation of the sheared flows and staircases with a full-wave 2D synthetic diagnostic FeDoT

Abstract Poloidal flows and avalanches play a key role in tokamak plasma selforganization by suppressing turbulence sheared flow regions, contributing to the formation of weak transport barriers. These structures, predicted GYSELA simulations …

Effect of modulated heat source on diffusive and avalanche-like transport

Abstract We utilize the global full-F gyrokinetic code GYSELA to analyze nonlocal transport in presence of modulated heat source, period which is range a timescale. In submarginal stable case, it observed that localized and time-modulated source can …