Ben McMillan

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Global Gyrokinetic ITG Turbulence Simulations of ITER

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

Global gyrokinetic simulations of ion temperature gradient (ITG) driven turbulence in an ideal MHD ITER equilibrium plasma are performed with the ORB5 code. The noise control and field-aligned Fourier filtering procedures implemented in ORB5 are essential ...

Institute of Physics2013

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 ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2012

Gyrokinetic transport relations for gyroscale turbulence

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

We derive explicit local transport relations for the global gyrokinetic formalism at arbitrary wavelength. This is an extension of the analysis in Scott et. al. 2010 where this was examined in the long-wavelength limit. Deriving a local expression for the ...

IOP Publishing2012

Parallel filtering in global gyrokinetic simulations

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

In this work, a Fourier solver [B.F. McMillan, S. Jolliet, A. Bottino, P. Angelino, T.M. Tran, L Villard, Comp. Phys. Commun. 181 (2010) 7151 is implemented in the global Eulerian gyrokinetic code GT5D [Y. Idomura, H. Urano, N. Aiba, S. Tokuda, Nucl. Fusio ...

Elsevier2012

Diamagnetic drift stabilized ballooning modes in a 3D heliotron

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Ben McMillan

An analysis of kinetic ballooning modes is presented, ray trajectories for the inward shifted Large Helical Device configuration at modest $$ and with an anisotropic pressure profile due to the hot particles are evaluated and an estimate of the margi ...

IOP Publishing2012

Predictions on heat transport and plasma rotation from global gyrokinetic simulations

Laurent Villard, Trach-Minh Tran, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

Flux-driven global gyrokinetic codes are now mature enough to make predictions in terms of turbulence and transport in tokamak plasmas. Some of the recent breakthroughs of three such codes, namely GYSELA, ORB5 and XGC1, are reported and compared wherever a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2011

Interaction of large scale flow structures with gyrokinetic turbulence

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

Shear flows have a profound influence on turbulence-driven transport in tokamaks. The introduction of arbitrary initial flow profiles into the code ORB5 [Jolliet et al., Comput. Phys. Commun. 177, 409 (2007)] allows the convenient study of how flows on all ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Global simulations of tokamak microturbulence: finite beta effects and collisions

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

In this paper, we present global nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations including finite beta effects and collisions in tokamak geometry. Global electromagnetic simulations using conventional delta-f particle in cell methods are very demanding, with respect to ...

Institute of Physics2011

Flux- and gradient-driven global gyrokinetic simulation of tokamak turbulence

Olivier Sauter, Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Ben McMillan, Xavier Lapillonne

The Eulerian gyrokinetic turbulence code GENE has recently been extended to a full torus code. Moreover, it now provides Krook-type sources for gradient-driven simulations where the profiles are maintained on average as well as localized heat sources for a ...

2011

Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulent transport: size scaling and chaotic behaviour

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

Important steps towards the understanding of turbulent transport have been made with the development of the gyrokinetic framework for describing turbulence and with the emergence of numerical codes able to solve the set of gyrokinetic equations. This paper ...

IOP Publishing2010

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Predictions on heat transport and plasma rotation from global gyrokinetic simulations

Laurent Villard, Trach-Minh Tran, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

IOP Publishing Ltd2011

Global Gyrokinetic ITG Turbulence Simulations of ITER

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

Institute of Physics2013

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

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2012