Ben McMillan

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Nonlinear quasisteady state benchmark of global gyrokinetic codes

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Ben McMillan, Xavier Lapillonne

Two global gyrokinetic codes are benchmarked against each other by comparing simulation results in the case of ion temperature gradient driven turbulence, in the adiabatic electron response limit The two codes are the Eulerian code GENE and the Lagrangian ...

American Institute of Physics2010

Neoclassical equilibria as starting point for global gyrokinetic microturbulence simulations

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

The implementation of linearized operators describing inter- and like-species collisions in the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5 [ S. Jolliet, Comput. Phys. Commun. 177, 409 (2007) ] is presented. A neoclassical axisymmetric equilibrium with s ...

American Institute of Physics2010

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

Global Nonlinear Electromagnetic Simulations of Tokamak Turbulence

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

The particle-in-cell code ORB5 is a global gyrokinetic turbulence simulation code in tokamak geometry. It has been developed at CRPP, Lausanne, Switzerland, with major contributions from IPP, Garching, Germany, and IPP, Greifswald, Germany, under a long-st ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

Global collisional gyrokinetic simulations of ITG microturbulence starting from a neoclassical equilibrium

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

Linearized operators describing inter-species and like-species collisions have been discretized and implemented in the gyrokinetic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code ORB5 [S. Jolliet, Comp. Phys. Comm. 177, 409 ( 2007)] based on the delta-f approach. Simulation r ...

Iop Publishing Ltd, Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol Bs1 6Be, England2010

Avalanche-like bursts in global gyrokinetic simulations

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

Highly variable flux surface averaged heat fluxes are resolved in gyrokinetic simulations of ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence, even in large systems. Radially propagating fronts or avalanches are also seen. Their propagation lengths in gyroradii a ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2009

Rapid Fourier space solution of linear partial differential equations in toroidal magnetic confinement geometries

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

Fluctuating quantities in magnetic confinement geometries often inherit a strong anisotropy along the field lines. One technique for describing these structures is the use of a certain set of Fourier components on the tori of nested flux surfaces. We descr ...

Elsevier2009

Quasi-steady and steady states in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations

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

Collisionless delta-f gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations suffer from the entropy paradox, in which the entropy grows linearly in time while low-order moments are saturated. As a consequence, these simulations do not reach a steady state and are unsui ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2009

The role of plasma elongation on turbulent transport in magnetically confined plasmas

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

The theoretical study of plasma turbulence is of central importance to fusion research. Experimental evidence indicates that the confinement time results mainly from the turbulent transport of energy, the magnitude of which depends on the turbulent state r ...

American Physical Society2009

Influence of the parallel nonlinearity on zonal flows and heat transport in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations

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

In this paper, the influence of the parallel nonlinearity on zonal flows and heat transport in global particle-in-cell ion-temperature-gradient simulations is studied. Although this term is in theory orders of magnitude smaller than the others, several aut ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2009

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Influence of the parallel nonlinearity on zonal flows and heat transport in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations

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

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2009

Quasi-steady and steady states in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations

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

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2009