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Gyrokinetic equilibria of high temperature superconducting magnetic mirrors
Maxwell H. Rosen, Manaure Francisquez, James Juno +2
High-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets and other advances have led to renewed interest in magnetic mirrors for fusion energy. The non-Maxwellian nature of mirror plasmas ne…
From Weibel seeds to collisionless dynamos beyond pair-plasmas
Lise Hanebring, James Juno, Ammar Hakim +2
Bridging the spatiotemporal scales of magnetic seed field generation and subsequent dynamo amplification in the weakly collisional intracluster medium presents an extreme numerical…
Capturing Secondary Kinetic Instabilities in Three-Dimensional Dayside Reconnection Using an Improved Gradient-Based Closure
Kolter Bradshaw, Ammar Hakim, James Juno +3
Magnetic reconnection is a highly dynamic process that excites a wide variety of kinetic waves and instabilities. Transverse current sheet instabilities such as the lower-hybrid dr…
Conservative velocity mappings for discontinuous Galerkin kinetics
Manaure Francisquez, Petr Cagas, Akash Shukla +2
Continuum computational kinetic plasma models evolve the distribution function of a plasma species on a phase-space grid over time. In many problems of interest the distribut…
Axisymmetric Gyrokinetic Simulation of ASDEX-Upgrade Scrape-off Layer Using a Conservative Implicit BGK Collision Operator
D. Liu, J. Juno, G. W. Hammett +3
Collisions play an important role in turbulence and transport of fusion plasmas. For kinetic simulations, as the collisionality increases in the domain of interest, the size of the…
Gyrokinetic Simulations of a Low Recycling Scrape-off Layer without a Lithium Target
Akash Shukla, Jonathan Roeltgen, Michael Kotschenreuther +7
Low-recycling regimes are appealing because they entail a high edge temperature and low edge density which are good for core confinement. However, due to considerably enhanced heat…