Publications by Trach-Minh Tran

Overview on recent progress in magnetron injection gun theory and design for high power gyrotrons

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud, Trach-Minh Tran, Konstantinos Avramidis, Ioannis Pagonakis

The magnetron injection gun (MIG) is one of the most critical subcomponents in gyrotrons. The electron beam, which has the primary role on the gyrotron operation, is generated and configured at this part of the tube. The electron beam properties determine ...

E D P SCIENCES2019

Parasitic Oscillations in Smooth-Wall Circular Symmetric Gyrotron Beam Ducts

Stefano Alberti, Jérémy Genoud, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Trach-Minh Tran, Konstantinos Avramidis

In order to study parasitic oscillation that may occur in a realistic beam duct upstream to the gyrotron cavity, the self-consistent linear and spectral code TWANGlinspec has been modified. The large inhomogeneities in the smooth-wall beam duct geometry or ...

2018

An arbitrary wavelength solver for global gyrokinetic simulations. Application to the study of fine radial structures on microturbulence due to non-adiabatic passing electron dynamics

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran, Ben McMillan, Gabriele Merlo, Julien Stanislas Pierre Dominski

The influence of the fine layers of the non-adiabatic passing electron response on electrostatic turbulent transport, previously studied systematically in flux tube geometry [Dominski et al., Phys. Plasmas 22, 062303 (2015)], is pursued in global geometry ...

Amer Inst Physics2017

Collisional damping rates for electron plasma waves reassessed

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran

Collisional damping of electron plasma waves, the primary damping for high phase velocity waves, is proportional to the electron-ion collision rate, nu(ei,th). Here, it is shown that the damping rate normalized to nu(ei,th) depends on the charge state, Z, ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Linear and non-linear studies of spurious backward-wave instabilities in a smooth-wall gyrotron beam duct

Stefano Alberti, Jérémy Genoud, Trach-Minh Tran

Recently developed self-consistent models for beam-wave interaction simulations of a gyrotron oscillator are used to study spurious backward-wave instabilities in smooth-wall metallic beam ducts. Starting from a simple case with a basic geometry, the influ ...

2017

Vlasov simulations of electron-ion collision effects on damping of electron plasma waves

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran

Collisional effects can play an essential role in the dynamics of plasma waves by setting a minimum damping rate and by interfering with wave-particle resonances. Kinetic simulations of the effects of electron-ion pitch angle scattering on Electron Plasma ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Novel linear analysis for a gyrotron oscillator based on a spectral approach

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud, Trach-Minh Tran

With the aim of gaining a better physical insight into linear regimes in gyrotrons, a new linear model was developed. This model is based on a spectral approach for solving the self-consistent system of equations describing the wave-particle interaction in ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2016

Start-up scenario studies in gyrotron oscillator using a novel linear and spectral code

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud, Trach-Minh Tran

A linear and spectral model has recently been developed [1], describing the self-consistent wave-particle interaction in a gyrotron oscillator. The spectral approach, compared to commonly used time-evolution approaches, has the possibility to describe all ...

IEEE2016

The GBS code for tokamak scrape-off layer simulations

Paolo Ricci, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Trach-Minh Tran, Sébastien Jolliet, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva, Annamaria Mosetto, Christoph Wersal

We describe a new version of GBS, a 3D global, flux-driven plasma turbulence code to simulate the turbulent dynamics in the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), superseding the code presented by Ricci et al. (2012) [14]. The present work is driven by the object ...

Elsevier2016

A portable platform for accelerated PIC codes and its application to GPUs using OpenACC

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Emmanuel Lanti, Trach-Minh Tran, Claudio Gheller

We present a portable platform, called PIC_ENGINE, for accelerating Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes on heterogeneous many-core architectures such as Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). The aim of this development is efficient simulations on future exascale syste ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016