Publications related to Ion acoustic wave

The competing effects of wave amplitude and collisions on multi-ion species suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering in inertial confinement fusion Hohlraums

Reduction in stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) from National Ignition Facility Hohlraums has been predicted through the use of multi-ion species materials on Hohlraum walls. This approach to controlling SBS is based upon introducing a lighter ion speci ...

2023

Predictive modeling of Alfvén eigenmode stability in inductive scenarios in JT-60SA

Javier García Hernández, Matteo Vallar, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo

The JT-60SA device offers unique conditions before ITER for the study of the interaction of energetic particles with plasma waves. With similar dimensions to JET, e.g., a major radius but with a slightly more elongated plasma volume, JT-60SA is used as a h ...

Frontiers Media Sa2023

Linear theory of electron-plasma waves at arbitrary collisionality

Paolo Ricci, Stephan Brunner, Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge, Vyacheslav Konovets, Sonia Gamba

The dynamics of electron-plasma waves is described at arbitrary collisionality by considering the full Coulomb collision operator. The description is based on a Hermite–Laguerre decomposition of the velocity dependence of the electron distribution function ...

Cambridge University Press2019

Projective multiscale time-integration for electrostatic particle-in-cell methods

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven, Paul Isaac Denis Louis Marie Cazeaux

The simulation of problems in kinetic plasma physics is often challenging due to strongly coupled phenomena across multiple scales. In this work, we propose a wavelet-based coarse-grained numerical scheme, based on the framework of Equation-Free Projective ...

2019

A moment-based model for plasma dynamics at arbitrary collisionality

Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge

Despite significant development over the last decades, a model able to describe the periphery region of magnetic confinement fusion devices, extending from the edge to the far scrape-off layer, is still missing. This is because this region is characterized ...

EPFL2019

Collisional damping rates for electron plasma waves reassessed

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran

Collisional damping of electron plasma waves, the primary damping for high phase velocity waves, is proportional to the electron-ion collision rate, nu(ei,th). Here, it is shown that the damping rate normalized to nu(ei,th) depends on the charge state, Z, ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Longitudinal and Transverse Instability of Ion Acoustic Waves

Stephan Brunner

Ion acoustic waves are found to be susceptible to at least two distinct decay processes. Which process dominates depends on the parameters. In the cases examined, the decay channel where daughter modes propagate parallel to the mother mode is found to domi ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Vlasov simulations of electron-ion collision effects on damping of electron plasma waves

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran

Collisional effects can play an essential role in the dynamics of plasma waves by setting a minimum damping rate and by interfering with wave-particle resonances. Kinetic simulations of the effects of electron-ion pitch angle scattering on Electron Plasma ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Multi-dimensional Vlasov simulations and modeling of trapped-electron-driven filamentation of electron plasma waves

Stephan Brunner

Kinetic simulations of two-dimensional finite-amplitude electron plasma waves are performed in a one-wavelength long system. A systematic study of the most unstable linear sideband mode, in particular its growth rate gamma and wavenumber k(y), is carried o ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Demonstrating the saturation of stimulated Brillouin scattering by ion acoustic decay using fully kinetic simulations

Stephan Brunner

The saturation of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) by the decay to turbulence of the ion acoustic wave (IAW) that participates in the three-wave SBS interaction is demonstrated using a quasinoiseless one-dimensional numerical solution to the Vlasov-Ma ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

New insights into the decay of ion waves to turbulence, ion heating, and soliton generation

Stephan Brunner

The decay of a single-frequency, propagating ion acoustic wave (IAW) via two-ion wave decay to a continuum of IAW modes is found to result in a highly turbulent plasma, ion soliton production, and rapid ion heating. Instability growth rates, thresholds, an ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Electron and ion kinetic effects on non-linearly driven electron plasma and ion acoustic waves

Stephan Brunner

Fully non-linear kinetic simulations of electron plasma and ion acoustic waves (IAWs) have been carried out with a new multi-species, parallelized Vlasov code. The numerical implementation of the Vlasov model and the methods used to compute the wave freque ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

Kinetic Theory and Vlasov Simulation of Nonlinear Ion-Acoustic Waves in Multi-Ion Species Plasmas

Stephan Brunner

The theory of damping and nonlinear frequency shifts from particles resonant with ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) is presented for multi-ion species plasma and compared to driven wave Vlasov simulations. Two distinct IAW modes may be supported in multi-ion speci ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Microphysics of Cosmic Plasmas: Hierarchies of Plasma Instabilities from MHD to Kinetic

Ivo Furno

In this article, we discuss the idea of a hierarchy of instabilities that can rapidly couple the disparate scales of a turbulent plasma system. First, at the largest scale of the system, L, current carrying flux ropes can undergo a kink instability. Second ...

Springer2013

Turbulent ion heating in TCV tokamak plasmas

Christian Schlatter

The Tokamak à configuration variable (TCV) features the highest electron cyclotron wave power density available to resonantly heat (ECRH) the electrons and to drive noninductive currents in a fusion grade plasma (ECCD). In more than 15 years of exploitatio ...

EPFL2009

The transition from thermally driven to ponderomotively driven stimulated Brillouin scattering and filamentation of light in plasma

Stephan Brunner

The dispersion properties of ion acoustic waves and their nonlinear coupling to light waves through ponderomotive and thermal forces are sensitive to the strength of electron-ion collisions. Here, with the neglect of electron-electron collisions, the growt ...

2005