Fully kinetic Particle-in-Cell simulations of the tearing mode instability in tokamaks

Jincai Ren, Yuchen Xu, Wei Zhang, Nikolai N. Gorelenkov, Wei Jiang, Minyou Ye, Giovanni Lapenta

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Abstract

The tearing mode instability could destroy the plasma confinement in fusion tokamaks and its mechanism is still not fully understood. Here we present the fully kinetic Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations of the tearing mode in tokamaks using an energy-conserving and semi-implicit PIC code ECsim. The formation and evolution of magnetic islands are presented and the computation cost proves to be large. More results will be given in the future.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication49th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, EPS 2023
PublisherEuropean Physical Society (EPS)
ISBN (Electronic)9781713898672
StatePublished - 2023
Event49th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, EPS 2023 - Bordeaux, France
Duration: Jul 3 2023Jul 7 2023

Publication series

Name49th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, EPS 2023

Conference

Conference49th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, EPS 2023
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityBordeaux
Period7/3/237/7/23

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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