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17–22 Oct 2016
Kyoto International Conference Center
Japan timezone

Toroidal Electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell Code with Gyro-kinetic Election and Fully-kinetic ion

19 Oct 2016, 14:00
4h 45m
Kyoto International Conference Center

Kyoto International Conference Center

Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan
Poster THW - Magnetic Confinement Theory and Modelling: Wave–plasma interactions; current drive; heating; energetic particles Poster 4

Speaker

Mr Jingbo Lin (CnUSTC)

Description

Current drive and auxiliary heating is critical for fusion plasmas. A kinetic simulation model has been developed using gyro-kinetic electron and fully-kinetic ion by removing fast gyro motion of electrons using the Lie-transform perturbation theory. A particle-in-cell kinetic code is developed based on this model in general magnetic flux coordinate systems, which is particularly suitable for simulations of toroidally confined plasma. Single particle motion and field solver are successfully verified respectively. Integral Electrostatic benchmark, for example the lower-hybrid wave (LHW) and ion Bernstein wave (IBW), shows a good agreement with theoretical results. Preliminary electromagnetic benchmark of fast wave at lower hybrid frequency range is also presented. This code could be a first-principal tool to investigate high frequency nonlinear phenomenon, such as parametric decay instability, during lower-hybrid current drive (LHCD) and ion cyclotron radio frequency heating (ICRF) with complex geometry effect included.
Country or International Organization China
Paper Number TH/P4-28

Primary author

Mr Jingbo Lin (CnUSTC)

Co-authors

Prof. Ding Li (CnCASIOP) Mr Pengfei Liu (CnUSTC) Prof. Wenlu Zhang (CnCASIOP)

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