This overview is an assessment of the gyrokinetic framework and simulations to compute
turbulent transport in fusion plasmas. It covers an introduction to the gyrokinetic theory, the …

Tokamaks have demonstrated excellent plasma confinement capability because of their
symmetry but has an intrinsic drawback because of their pulsed inductive operation. Efforts …

Plasma discharges with a negative triangularity (δ=-0.4) shape have been created in the DIII-
D tokamak with a significant normalized beta (β N= 2.7) and confinement characteristic of …

The fluid-kinetic hybrid electron model for global electromagnetic gyrokinetic particle
simulations has been formulated in toroidal geometry using magnetic coordinates, providing …

Transport analyses using first-principle turbulence codes and 1 1 2-D transport codes
usually study radial transport properties between the tokamak plasma magnetic axis and a …

Considering the same magnetic equilibrium and plasma conditions as in Duff et al.[Phys.
Plasmas 29, 012303 (2022)], we perform linear and nonlinear simulations of electrostatic ion …

Local gyrokinetic simulations with the GENE code are used to investigate the turbulent
transport for different levels of neutral beam injection heating power in the Tokamak à …

Interplay between magnetic shear and triangularity in ion temperature gradient and trapped
electron mode dominated plasmas Page 1 J. Plasma Phys. (2023), vol. 89, 905890104 © …

The experimental observation made on the TCV tokamak of a significant confinement
improvement in plasmas with negative triangularity (δ< 0) compared to those with standard …

The effects of plasma elongation on trapped electron mode (TEM) driven turbulence and
transport are investigated with detailed analyses of fluctuation, zonal flow and zonal …