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A Nonlinear PIC Algorithm for High Frequency Waves in Magnetized Plasmas Based on Gyrocenter Gauge Kinetic Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2015

Jian Liu,
Zhi Yu and
Hong Qin
Jian Liu
Affiliation:
Department of Modern Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Fusion Energy and Plasma Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, ChinaKey Laboratory of Geospace Environment, University of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
Zhi Yu*
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, University of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230026, ChinaTheory and Simulation Division, Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
Hong Qin*
Affiliation:
Department of Modern Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Fusion Energy and Plasma Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, ChinaPlasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA
*
Corresponding author.Email:yuzhi@ipp.ac.cn
Email:hongqin@ustc.edu.cn
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Abstract

Numerical methods based on gyrocenter gauge kinetic theory are suitable for first principle simulations of high frequency waves in magnetized plasmas. The δf gyrocenter gauge PIC simulation for linear rf wave has been previously realized. In this paper we further develop a full-f nonlinear PIC algorithm appropriate for the nonlinear physics of high frequency waves in magnetized plasmas. Numerical cases of linear rf waves are calculated as a benchmark for the nonlinear GyroGauge code, meanwhile nonlinear rf-wave phenomena are studied. The technique and advantage of the reduction of the numerical noise in this full-f gyrocenter gauge PIC algorithm are also discussed.

Keywords

65Z0570K7070K7578M34Gyrocenter gauge kineticsmulti-scale problemnonlinear systemparticle-in-cell

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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , April 2014, pp. 1167 - 1183
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Copyright © Global Science Press Limited 2014

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