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Ben McMillan

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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

Overview of progress in European medium sized tokamaks towards an integrated plasma-edge/wall solution

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Sommariva, Laurie Porte, Alexander Karpushov, Marc Gruber, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Joan Decker, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Yanis Andrebe, Richard Pitts, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Roland Behn, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Federico Nespoli, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Emiliano Fable, Ben McMillan, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Doohyun Kim, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers, Anna Teplukhina, Zhouji Huang, Dávid Wágner, Claudio Marini, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Hoang Bao Le, Himank Anand, Attila Bencze, Heinz Mueller, Donghyun Kim, Bernhard Sieglin, Gergely Papp, Giovanni Tardini

Integrating the plasma core performance with an edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) that leads to tolerable heat and particle loads on the wall is a major challenge. The new European medium size tokamak task force (EU-MST) coordinates research on ASDEX Upgrade ...

2017

Padé approximation of the adiabatic electron contribution to the gyrokinetic quasi-neutrality equation in the ORB5 code

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Emmanuel Lanti, Ben McMillan, Julien Stanislas Pierre Dominski

This work aims at completing the implementation of a solver for the quasineutrality equation using a PadÃ© approximation in the global gyrokinetic code ORB5. Initially [Dominski, Ph.D. thesis, 2016], the Pade approximation was only implemented for the kine ...

2016

Overview of MAST results

Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Jan Horacek, Ben McMillan, Ricardo Pérez Suárez, Otto Asunta

The Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) programme is strongly focused on addressing key physics issues in preparation for operation of ITER as well as providing solutions for DEMO design choices. In this regard, MAST has provided key results in understand ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Overview of MAST results

Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Jan Horacek, Ben McMillan, Ricardo Pérez Suárez, Otto Asunta

IOP2015

Accuracy of momentum and gyrodensity transport in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations

Laurent Villard, Ben McMillan

Gyrokinetic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations based on conservative Lagrangian formalisms admit transport equations for conserved quantities such as gyrodensity and toroidal momentum, and these can be derived for arbitrary wavelength, even though previous ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Turbulence and zonal flow structures in the core and L-mode pedestal of tokamak plasmas

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

Zonal flows (ZF) play a crucial role in regulating ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence. In previous global gyrokinetic simulations [1] using the ORB5 code with the adiabatic electron model, it was observed that long-lived ZF structures, leading to a ...

IOP Publishing2014

Turbulence and zonal flow structures in the core and L-mode pedestal of tokamak plasmas

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

Zonal flows (ZF) play a crucial role in regulating ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence. In previous global gyrokinetic simulations [I] using the ORB5 code with the adiabatic electron model, it was observed that long-lived ZF structures, leading to a ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

Global gyrokinetic simulations of TEM microturbulence

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Ben McMillan, Thibaut Vernay

Global gyrokinetic simulations of electrostatic temperature-gradient-driven trapped-electron-mode (TEM) turbulence using the delta f particle-in-cell code ORB5 are presented. The electron response is either fully kinetic or hybrid, i.e. considering kinetic ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Synergy between ion temperature gradient turbulence and neoclassical processes in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Ben McMillan, Thibaut Vernay

Based on the CYCLONE case, simulations of collisional electrostatic ion temperature gradient (ITG) microturbulence carried out with the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code ORB5 are presented. Considering adiabatic electrons, an increase in ion h ...

Amer Inst Physics2012

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