Electromagnetic gyrokinetic δf particle-in-cell turbulence simulation with realistic equilibrium profiles and geometry

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 839-855

  Chen, Yang ^a   Parker, Scott E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic turbulence; Flux surface shape; Generalized split weight scheme; Gyrokinetic simulation; f method

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; TURBULENCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC TURBULENCE; EQUILIBRIUM PROFILES; FLUX SURFACES; FLUX-SURFACE SHAPE; GENERALIZED SPLIT-WEIGHT SCHEME; GRID SCALE; GYROKINETIC SIMULATIONS; SURFACE SHAPE; WEIGHT SCHEMES; ΔF METHOD;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

EID: 33845632877     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.05.028     Document Type: Article

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