New conservative gyrokinetic full-f Vlasov code and its comparison to gyrokinetic δf particle-in-cell code

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 244-262

  Idomura, Yasuhiro ^a   Ida, Masato ^a   Tokuda, Shinji ^a   Villard, Laurent ^b  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conservative schemes; Fusion plasmas; Gyrokinetic equation; Long time micro turbulence simulations; Particle in cell simulation; Vlasov simulation

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); PLASMA SIMULATION; TURBULENCE; VLASOV EQUATION;

CONSERVATIVE SCHEMES; FUSION PLASMAS; GYROKINETIC EQUATIONS; GYROKINETICS; LONG TIME MICRO-TURBULENCE SIMULATION; MICRO TURBULENCE; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PARTICLEIN CELL (PIC) CODES; TURBULENCE SIMULATION; VLASOV SIMULATION;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 34548432542     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.04.013     Document Type: Article

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