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Towards the optimization of a gyrokinetic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code on large-scale hybrid architectures

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Emmanuel Lanti, Trach-Minh Tran, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana, Claudio Gheller

With the aim of enabling state-of-the-art gyrokinetic PIC codes to benefit from the performance of recent multithreaded devices, we developed an application from a platform called the "PIC-engine" [1, 2, 3] embedding simplified basic features of the PIC me ...

2016

Flux-tube and global grid-based gyrokinetic simulations of plasma microturbulence and comparisons with experimental TCV measurements

Gabriele Merlo

In magnetic fusion devices, the radial transport of heat and particle largely exceeds predictions based on collisional processes. This is widely understood as a consequence of small-scale turbulence which results from the nonlinear behaviour of so-called m ...

EPFL2016

Hybrid guiding-centre/full-orbit simulations in non-axisymmetric magnetic geometry exploiting general criterion for guiding-centre accuracy

Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, David Pfefferlé

To identify under what conditions guiding-centre or full-orbit tracing should be used, an estimation of the spatial variation of the magnetic field is proposed, not only taking into account gradient and curvature terms but also parallel currents and the lo ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Energetic ion dynamics and confinement in 3D saturated MHD configurations

David Pfefferlé

In the following theoretical and numerically oriented work, a number of findings have been assembled. The newly devised VENUS-LEVIS code, designed to accurately solve the motion of energetic particles in the presence of 3D magnetic fields, relies on a non- ...

EPFL2015

The global version of the gyrokinetic turbulence code GENE

Stephan Brunner, Xavier Lapillonne

The understanding and prediction of transport due to plasma microturbulence is a key open problem in modern plasma physics, and a grand challenge for fusion energy research. Ab initio simulations of such small-scale, low-frequency turbulence are to be base ...

2011

System size effects on gyrokinetic turbulence

Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Ben McMillan, Xavier Lapillonne

The scaling of turbulence-driven heat transport with system size in magnetically confined plasmas is reexamined using first-principles based numerical simulations. Two very different numerical methods are applied to this problem, in order to resolve a long ...

The American Physical Society2010

Local and Global Eulerian Gyrokinetic Simulations of Microturbulence in Realistic Geometry with Applications to the TCV Tokamak

Xavier Lapillonne

In magnetically confined fusion devices, the energy and particle transport is significantly larger than expected from purely collisional processes. This degraded confinement mostly results from small-scale turbulence and prevents from reaching self-sustain ...

EPFL2010

Toroidal Universal Drift Instability: A Global Gyrokinetic Study

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner

An electron density gradient driven instability identified as the toroidal branch of the universal drift instability is studied using a global gyrokinetic model treating both electrons and ions fully nonadiabatically and valid at all orders in the ratio of ...

American Institute of Physics2010

Development of a Global Version of the Gyrokinetic Microturbulence Code GENE

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Ben McMillan, Xavier Lapillonne

In order to address non-local effects in turbulent transport of magnetic-fusion devices, the gyrokinetic code GENE has been extended from a flux tube to a more global geometry. This global version of GENE includes radial variations of temperature and densi ...

2010

Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulent transport

Laurent Villard

This overview is an assessment of the gyrokinetic framework and simulations to compute turbulent transport in fusion plasmas. It covers an introduction to the gyrokinetic theory, the principal numerical techniques which are being used to solve the gyrokine ...

IOP Publishing and IAEA2010

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