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Modes of a plasma-filled waveguide determined by a numerical hp method

We present the application of the recent physics-conforming COOL method [2,4] to the eigenvalue problem of a cylindrical waveguide filled with unmagnetized plasma. Using the Fourier transform only along the waveguide and not in poloidal direction, this is ...

2009

A global collisionless PIC code in magnetic coordinates

Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Kurt Appert, Trach-Minh Tran, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Ben McMillan, Paolo Angelino

A global plasma turbulence simulation code, ORB5, is presented. It solves the gyrokinetic electrostatic equations including zonal flows in axisymmetric magnetic geometry. The present version of the code assumes a Boltzmann electron response on magnetic sur ...

Elsevier2007

On resonance absorption and continuum damping (vol 5, pg 3801, 1998)

Laurent Villard, Kurt Appert

2007

Safety factor profile requirements for electron ITB formation in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge

On the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV), electron internal transport barriers (eITBs) can be formed during a gradual evolution from a centrally peaked to a hollow current profile while all external actuators are held constant. The formation occurs ra ...

2005

Stabilization of ion-temperature-gradient-driven tokamak modes by magnetic-field gradient reversal

Kurt Appert, Trach-Minh Tran

Global gyrokinetic particle simulations have been used to search tokamak configurations which are stable again st the ion-temperature-gradient - driven (ITG) modes commonly held responsible for the core anomalous ion heat transport. The stable configuratio ...

1997