ASCOT: solving the kinetic equation of minority particle species in tokamak plasmas

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2014.01.014zbMATH Open1344.82046arXiv1308.1904OpenAlexW2020495826MaRDI QIDQ314093FDOQ314093

Authors: E. Hirvijoki, O. Asunta, T. Koskela, T. Kurki-Suonio, J. Miettunen, S. Sipilä, A. Snicker, S. Äkäslompolo 

Publication date: 12 September 2016

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A comprehensive description of methods, suitable for solving the kinetic equation for fast ions and impurity species in tokamak plasmas using Monte Carlo approach, is presented. The described methods include Hamiltonian orbit-following in particle and guiding center phase space, test particle or guiding center solution of the kinetic equation applying stochastic differential equations in the presence of Coulomb collisions, neoclassical tearing modes and Alfv'en eigenmodes as electromagnetic perturbations relevant to fast ions, together with plasma flow and atomic reactions relevant to impurity studies. Applying the methods, a complete reimplementation of the well-established minority species code ASCOT is carried out as a response both to the increase in computing power during the last twenty years and to the weakly structured growth of the code, which has made implementation of additional models impractical. Also, a benchmark between the previous code and the reimplementation is accomplished, showing good agreement between the codes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1904

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zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlofast ionsimpurity tracingorbit-following

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

Cites Work

• LIGKA: A linear gyrokinetic code for the description of background kinetic and fast particle effects on the MHD stability in tokamaks
• Mersenne twister
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• New techniques for calculating heat and particle source rates due to neutral beam injection in axisymmetric tokamaks
• The Theory of Toroidally Confined Plasmas
• Hamiltonian theory of guiding-center motion
• Particle simulation of the neoclassical plasmas

Cited In (6)

• Solution of hot particle ballooning mode integral equation in tokamaks
• FOCUS: a full-orbit CUDA solver for particle simulations in magnetized plasmas
• Moment-preserving and mesh-adaptive reweighting method for rare-event sampling in Monte-Carlo algorithms
• HECTOR: A code for the study of charged particles in axisymmetric tokamak plasmas
• Monte Carlo orbit-following simulations including the finite Larmor radius effect based on a phase-space coordinate transform method
• FOXTAIL: modeling the nonlinear interaction between Alfvén eigenmodes and energetic particles in tokamaks

Uses Software

• QUADPACK
• LIGKA
• Slatec
• MersenneTwister
• HDF
• ASCOT

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