Title
A 5D gyrokinetic full-f global semi-Lagrangian code for flux-driven ion turbulence simulations.
Abstract
This paper addresses non-linear gyrokinetic simulations of ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence in tokamak plasmas. The electrostatic Gysela code is one of the few international 5D gyrokinetic codes able to perform global, full-f and flux-driven simulations. Its has also the numerical originality of being based on a semi-Lagrangian (SL) method. This reference paper for the Gysela code presents a complete description of its multi-ion species version including: (i) numerical scheme, (ii) high level of parallelism up to 500k cores and (iii) conservation law properties.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.cpc.2016.05.007
Computer Physics Communications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Plasma turbulence,Gyrokinetic global full-f flux-driven simulations,Semi-Lagrangian method,High-performance computing
Journal
207
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0010-4655
10
1.01
References 
Authors
19
19