Publications by Baptiste Jimmy Frei

Full-F turbulent simulation in a linear plasma device using a gyro-moment approach

Simulations of plasma turbulence in a linear plasma device configuration are presented. These simulations are based on a simplified version of the gyrokinetic (GK) model proposed by Frei et al. [J. Plasma Phys. 86, 905860205 (2020)], where the full-F distr ...

Aip Publishing2024

Gyrokinetic simulations of plasma turbulence in a Z-pinch using a moment-based approach and advanced collision operators

Paolo Ricci, Baptiste Jimmy Frei, Antoine Cyril David Hoffmann

The first nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations obtained using a moment approach based on the Hermite-Laguerre decomposition of the distribution function are presented, implementing advanced models for the collision operator. Turbulence in a two-dimensional Z- ...

Cambridge University Press2023

Gyrokinetic moment-based simulations of the Dimits shift

Paolo Ricci, Baptiste Jimmy Frei, Antoine Cyril David Hoffmann

We present a convergence study of the gyromoment (GM) approach, which is based on projecting the gyrokinetic distribution function onto a Hermite–Laguerre polynomial basis, focused on the cyclone base case (CBC) (Lin et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 83, no. ...

Cambridge University Press2023

A Gyrokinetic Moment Model of the Plasma Boundary in Fusion Devices

Baptiste Jimmy Frei

The overall performance of fusion devices, such as tokamaks, is strongly correlated to the phenomena that occur in the boundary region, the outer plasma region that faces the wall of the device. The boundary plays a crucial role in regulating the heat and ...

EPFL2023

Numerical implementation of the improved Sugama collision operator using a moment approach

Paolo Ricci, Baptiste Jimmy Frei

The numerical implementation of the linearized gyrokinetic and drift-kinetic improved Sugama (IS) collision operators, recently introduced by Sugama et al. [Phys. Plasmas 26, 102108 (2019)], is reported. The IS collision operator extends the validity of th ...

2022

Development of advanced linearized gyrokinetic collision operators using a moment approach

Paolo Ricci, Baptiste Jimmy Frei, Antoine Cyril David Hoffmann, Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge, Louis Nicolas Stenger, Justin Richard Ball

The derivation and numerical implementation of a linearized version of the gyrokinetic (GK) Coulomb collision operator (Jorge et al., J. Plasma Phys., vol. 85, 2019, 905850604) and of the widely used linearized GK Sugama collision operator (Sugama et al., ...

Cambridge University Press2021

A gyrokinetic model for the plasma periphery of tokamak devices

Paolo De Los Rios, Paolo Ricci, Baptiste Jimmy Frei, Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge

A gyrokinetic model is presented that can properly describe large and small amplitude electromagnetic fluctuations occurring on scale lengths ranging from the electron Larmor radius to the equilibrium perpendicular pressure gradient scale length, and the a ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Coulomb Collision Operator

Paolo Ricci, Baptiste Jimmy Frei, Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge

A gyrokinetic Coulomb collision operator is derived, which is particularly useful to describe the plasma dynamics at the periphery region of magnetic confinement fusion devices. The derived operator is able to describe collisions occurring in distribution ...

Cambridge University Press2019

Simulation of plasma turbulence in the periphery of diverted tokamak by using the GBS code

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Baptiste Jimmy Frei, Christoph Wersal, Paola Paruta, Carrie Fiona Beadle

We report on the implementation of diverted magnetic equilibria in GBS and on first simulations in this geometry. GBS is a simulation code used to evolve plasma turbulence in the tokamak periphery by solving the drift-reduced Braginskii's equations. The mo ...

2018