ALLIANCE: spectral solver for kinetic plasma turbulence

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2023.112550MaRDI QIDQ6087969zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Evgeny A. Gorbunov, B. Teaca

Publication date 16 November 2023

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01993

zbMATH Keywords

drift kinetic equationsplasma turbulencepseudo-spectral solver

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76Xxx) Applications of statistical mechanics to specific types of physical systems (82Dxx) Astronomy and astrophysics (85Axx)

Abstract: The ALLIANCE code is developed to solve a new set of four-dimensional electromagnetic drift-kinetic equations in slab geometry [J. Plasma Phys. 88 905880117 (2022)]. The nonlinear equations are useful for the study of magnetized plasma systems at scales comparable to, or larger than the ion gyroradius. In particular, it is suited for the study the kinetic turbulent cascade in astrophysical plasma, while preserving finite Larmor radius effects at the fluid-kinetic transition. The equations solved are in spectral Fourier-Laguerre-Hermite form, a pseudo-spectral approach is used for the nonlinear terms, and the code is parallelised over multiple directions. After a presentation of the code, validation runs are shown, and benchmarks for serial and parallel computations are presented.

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Cites work

• AstroGK: astrophysical gyrokinetics code
• Fluidization of collisionless plasma turbulence
• Foundations of nonlinear gyrokinetic theory

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