Neoclassical simulation of tokamak plasmas using the continuum gyrokinetic code TEMPEST

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Xu, X Q ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUSION REACTIONS; FUSION REACTORS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMA THEORY; PLASMAS; POISSON EQUATION; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

ACOUSTIC MODES; BOLTZMANN MODELS; CIRCULAR GEOMETRIES; COLLISION MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; FINITE DIFFERENCING; GYROKINETIC; GYROKINETIC CODES; GYROKINETIC EQUATIONS; IN PHASE; LORENTZ; METHOD OF LINES; NEO-CLASSICAL THEORY; NEOCLASSICAL TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL SCHEMES; PHASE SPACES; TOKAMAK PLASMAS; TOROIDAL MAGNETIC FUSION DEVICES;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 48849110226     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.016406     Document Type: Article

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