Geodesic acoustic modes in magnetic confinement devices

GD Conway, AI Smolyakov, T Ido - Nuclear Fusion, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are ubiquitous oscillatory flow phenomena observed in
toroidal magnetic confinement fusion plasmas, such as tokamaks and stellarators. They are …

Kinetic theory of geodesic acoustic modes in toroidal plasmas: a brief review

QIU Zhiyong, C Liu, F Zonca - Plasma Science and Technology, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Geodesic acoustic modes (GAM) are oscillating zonal structures unique to toroidal plasmas,
and have been extensively studied in the past decades due to their potential capabilities of …

The JOREK non-linear extended MHD code and applications to large-scale instabilities and their control in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

M Hoelzl, GTA Huijsmans, SJP Pamela… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
JOREK is a massively parallel fully implicit non-linear extended magneto-hydrodynamic
(MHD) code for realistic tokamak X-point plasmas. It has become a widely used versatile …

ORB5: a global electromagnetic gyrokinetic code using the PIC approach in toroidal geometry

E Lanti, N Ohana, N Tronko… - Computer Physics …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents the current state of the global gyrokinetic code Orb 5 as an update of the
previous reference (Jolliet et al., 2007). The Orb 5 code solves the electromagnetic Vlasov …

Gyrokinetic investigation of Alfvén instabilities in the presence of turbulence

A Biancalani, A Bottino, A Di Siena… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The nonlinear dynamics of beta-induced Alfvén eigenmodes (BAEs) driven by energetic
particles (EPs) in the presence of ion-temperature-gradient turbulence is investigated, by …

Gyrokinetic modeling of anisotropic energetic particle driven instabilities in tokamak plasmas

B Rettino, T Hayward-Schneider, A Biancalani… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Energetic particles produced by neutral beams are observed to excite energetic-particle-
driven geodesic acoustic modes in tokamaks. We study the effects of anisotropy of …

Shaping effects on the geodesic acoustic mode in tokamaks

Z Chen, H Ren - Nuclear Fusion, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) is investigated with gyro-kinetic equations in Miller local
equilibrium model for shaped tokamak plasmas with an arbitrary elongation κ and a finite …

Global linear and nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of tearing modes

T Jitsuk, A Di Siena, MJ Pueschel, PW Terry… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
To better understand multi-scale interactions between global tearing modes and
microturbulence in the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) reversed-field pinch (RFP), the …

Saturation of energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic modes due to wave–particle nonlinearity

A Biancalani, I Chavdarovski, Z Qiu… - Journal of Plasma …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The nonlinear dynamics of energetic-particle (EP) driven geodesic acoustic modes (EGAM)
is investigated here. A numerical analysis with the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code …

Linear gyrokinetic investigation of the geodesic acoustic modes in realistic tokamak configurations

I Novikau, A Biancalani, A Bottino, GD Conway… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
In order to provide scaling formulae for the geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) frequency and
damping rate, GAMs are studied by means of the gyrokinetic global particle-in-cell code …