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Turbulence and zonal flow structures in the core and L-mode pedestal of tokamak plasmas

Stephan Brunner, Olivier Sauter, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Ben McMillan, Julien Stanislas Pierre Dominski, Gabriele Merlo

Zonal flows (ZF) play a crucial role in regulating ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence. In previous global gyrokinetic simulations [1] using the ORB5 code with the adiabatic electron model, it was observed that long-lived ZF structures, leading to a ...

IOP Publishing2014

Moment-based, self-consistent linear analysis of gyrotron oscillators

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge

A new model for simulating gyrotron oscillators in the monomode time-dependent linear self-consistent regime is presented. Starting from a nonlinear time-dependent monomode model, the linearization and the following simplification of the model, based on a ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Bifurcated Helical Core Equilibrium States in Tokamaks

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Basil Duval, Antoine Pochelon, Olivier Sauter, Trach-Minh Tran, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves, Benoît Labit, David Pfefferlé, Federico David Halpern, Daniele Brunetti

Tokamaks with weak to moderate reversed central shear in which the minimum inverse rotational transform (safety factor) qmin is in the neighbourhood of unity can trigger bifurcated magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium states, one of which is similar to a satura ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Nanosecond Pulses in a THz Gyrotron Oscillator Operating in a Mode-Locked Self-Consistent Q-Switch Regime

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

An experimental study of a nanosecond pulsed regime in a THz gyrotron oscillator operating in a self-consistent Q-switch regime has been carried out. The gyrotron is operated in the TE7,2 transverse mode radiating at a frequency of 260.5 GHz. The 5 W nanos ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Global Gyrokinetic ITG Turbulence Simulations of ITER

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Thibaut Vernay, Ben McMillan

Global gyrokinetic simulations of ion temperature gradient (ITG) driven turbulence in an ideal MHD ITER equilibrium plasma are performed with the ORB5 code. The noise control and field-aligned Fourier filtering procedures implemented in ORB5 are essential ...

Institute of Physics2013

High-Power THz-Waves using gyrotrons: new physics results

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

2013

Synergy between ion temperature gradient turbulence and neoclassical processes in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Thibaut Vernay, Ben McMillan

Based on the CYCLONE case, simulations of collisional electrostatic ion temperature gradient (ITG) microturbulence carried out with the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code ORB5 are presented. Considering adiabatic electrons, an increase in ion h ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2012

Experimental results on a modular-gyrotron operating at 0.26THz for 400MHz DNP/NMR spectroscopy application

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Philippe Cuanillon, Damien Fasel, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémie Dubray, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Alessandro Macor, Falk Hans Braunmüller

2012

Parallel filtering in global gyrokinetic simulations

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Thibaut Vernay, Ben McMillan

In this work, a Fourier solver [B.F. McMillan, S. Jolliet, A. Bottino, P. Angelino, T.M. Tran, L Villard, Comp. Phys. Commun. 181 (2010) 7151 is implemented in the global Eulerian gyrokinetic code GT5D [Y. Idomura, H. Urano, N. Aiba, S. Tokuda, Nucl. Fusio ...

Elsevier2012

Global simulations of tokamak microturbulence: finite beta effects and collisions

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Thibaut Vernay, Ben McMillan

In this paper, we present global nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations including finite beta effects and collisions in tokamak geometry. Global electromagnetic simulations using conventional delta-f particle in cell methods are very demanding, with respect to ...

Institute of Physics2011

Predictions on heat transport and plasma rotation from global gyrokinetic simulations

Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

Flux-driven global gyrokinetic codes are now mature enough to make predictions in terms of turbulence and transport in tokamak plasmas. Some of the recent breakthroughs of three such codes, namely GYSELA, ORB5 and XGC1, are reported and compared wherever a ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2011

Global Nonlinear Electromagnetic Simulations of Tokamak Turbulence

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Thibaut Vernay, Ben McMillan

The particle-in-cell code ORB5 is a global gyrokinetic turbulence simulation code in tokamak geometry. It has been developed at CRPP, Lausanne, Switzerland, with major contributions from IPP, Garching, Germany, and IPP, Greifswald, Germany, under a long-st ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulent transport: size scaling and chaotic behaviour

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Thibaut Vernay, Xavier Lapillonne, Ben McMillan

Important steps towards the understanding of turbulent transport have been made with the development of the gyrokinetic framework for describing turbulence and with the emergence of numerical codes able to solve the set of gyrokinetic equations. This paper ...

IOP Publishing2010

Neoclassical equilibria as starting point for global gyrokinetic microturbulence simulations

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Jonathan Graves, Thibaut Vernay, Ben McMillan

The implementation of linearized operators describing inter- and like-species collisions in the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5 [ S. Jolliet, Comput. Phys. Commun. 177, 409 (2007) ] is presented. A neoclassical axisymmetric equilibrium with s ...

American Institute of Physics2010

Global collisional gyrokinetic simulations of ITG microturbulence starting from a neoclassical equilibrium

Stephan Brunner, Olivier Sauter, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Thibaut Vernay, Ben McMillan

Linearized operators describing inter-species and like-species collisions have been discretized and implemented in the gyrokinetic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code ORB5 [S. Jolliet, Comp. Phys. Comm. 177, 409 ( 2007)] based on the delta-f approach. Simulation r ...

Iop Publishing Ltd, Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol Bs1 6Be, England2010

Rapid Fourier space solution of linear partial differential equations in toroidal magnetic confinement geometries

Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

Fluctuating quantities in magnetic confinement geometries often inherit a strong anisotropy along the field lines. One technique for describing these structures is the use of a certain set of Fourier components on the tori of nested flux surfaces. We descr ...

Elsevier2009

Avalanche-like bursts in global gyrokinetic simulations

Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

Highly variable flux surface averaged heat fluxes are resolved in gyrokinetic simulations of ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence, even in large systems. Radially propagating fronts or avalanches are also seen. Their propagation lengths in gyroradii a ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2009

Bootstrap current calculations with the SPBSC and the VENUS delta f codes for the Large Helical Device

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Olivier Sauter, Trach-Minh Tran

Total bootstrap current calculations with the updated VENUS+δf code that incorporates energy convolution and the momentum correction technique have been performed for the reference tokamak JT-60U cases and for the experimental Large Helical Device (LH ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2009

The role of plasma elongation on turbulent transport in magnetically confined plasmas

Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

The theoretical study of plasma turbulence is of central importance to fusion research. Experimental evidence indicates that the confinement time results mainly from the turbulent transport of energy, the magnitude of which depends on the turbulent state r ...

American Physical Society2009

Moment approach to the bootstrap current in nonaxisymmetric toroidal plasmas using deltaf Monte Carlo methods

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Trach-Minh Tran

To evaluate the bootstrap current in nonaxisymmetric toroidal plasmas quantitatively, a deltaf Monte Carlo method is incorporated into the moment approach. From the drift-kinetic equation with the pitch-angle scattering collision operator, the bootstrap cu ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2009

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