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most citedPiecewise Field-Aligned Finite Element Method for Multi-Mode Nonlinear Particle Simulations in tokamak plasmas

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physics.plasm-ph2026

Geometric numerical discretization of a quasineutral hybrid model of drift-kinetic electrons and fully kinetic ions

Nishant Narechania, Guo Meng, Emil Poulsen +1

We extend the geometric electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) framework, GEMPICX, to solve the quasineutral hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell equations with drift-kinetic electrons and fully…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Suppressed Stiffness of energetic particle transport due to thermal plasma nonlinearity in tokamak plasmas

Guo Meng, Zhixin Lu, Gengxian Li

Energetic particle (EP) transport stiffness plays a crucial role in determining EP confinement in tokamak plasmas. This work investigates the impact of nonlinear thermal plasma dyn…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Gyrokinetic global simulation of Alfvenic ion temperature gradient mode in reversed magnetic shear

Gengxian Li, Zhixin Lu, Philipp Lauber +3

In this work, a systematic study of electromagnetic instabilities driven by the temperature gradient in magnetically confined fusion plasmas with reversed magnetic shear is conduct…

physics.plasm-ph2026

A quasi-neutral electromagnetic hybrid model with drift-kinetic electrons and fully kinetic ions

Guo Meng, Nishant Narechania, Eric Sonnendrücker

In this work, we propose a hybrid model that combines drift-kinetic electrons with fully kinetic ions under the quasi-neutrality assumption, discretized using a geometric particle-…

physics.plasm-ph2026

A High-order piecewise field-aligned triangular finite element method for electromagnetic gyrokinetic particle simulations of tokamak plasmas with open field lines

Zhixin Lu, Guo Meng, Eric Sonnendruecker +6

A high-order piecewise field-aligned triangular finite element method is developed and implemented for global electromagnetic gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations of tokamak pl…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Generalized mixed variable-pullback scheme with non-ideal Ohm's law for electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulations

Zhixin Lu, Guo Meng, Roman Hatzky +3

In this work, the non-ideal Ohm's law is integrated in the mixed variable-pullback scheme for the gyrokinetic particle simulations. This scheme captures the evolution of the symple…

physics.plasm-ph2025

TRIMEG-GKX: an electromagnetic gyrokinetic particle code with a Piecewise Field-Aligned Finite Element Method for Micro- and Macro-Instability Studies in Tokamak Core Plasmas

Zhixin Lu, Guo Meng, Roman Hatzky +2

The features of the TRIMEG-GKX code are described with emphasis on the exploration using novel/different schemes compared to other gyrokinetic codes, particularly the use of object…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 5 cited

Piecewise Field-Aligned Finite Element Method for Multi-Mode Nonlinear Particle Simulations in tokamak plasmas

Zhixin Lu, Guo Meng, Eric Sonnendrücker +5

This paper presents a novel approach for simulating plasma instabilities in tokamak plasmas using the piecewise field-aligned finite element method in combination with the particle…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Gyrokinetic Electromagnetic Particle Simulations in Triangular Meshes with C1 Finite Elements

Zhixin Lu, Guo Meng, Roman Hatzky +6

The triangular mesh-based gyrokinetic scheme enables comprehensive axis-to-edge studies across the entire plasma volume. Our approach employs triangular finite elements with first-…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Energetic particles transport in constants of motion space due to collisions in tokamak plasmas

Guo Meng, Philipp Lauber, Zhixin Lu +2

The spatio-temporal evolution of the energetic particles in the transport time scale in tokamak plasmas is a key issue of the plasmas confinement, especially in burning plasmas. In…

physics.plasm-ph2024

High-order stochastic integration schemes for the Rosenbluth-Trubnikov collision operator in particle simulations

Zhixin Lu, Guo Meng, Tomasz Tyranowski +1

In this study, we consider a numerical implementation of the nonlinear Rosenbluth-Trubnikov collision operator for particle simulations in plasma physics in the framework of the fi…

physics.plasm-ph2021

Mode structure symmetry breaking of reversed shear Alfvén eigenmodes and its impact on the generation of parallel velocity asymmetries in energetic particle distribution

Guo Meng, Philipp Lauber, Xin Wang +1

In this work, the gyrokinetic eigenvalue code LIGKA, the drift-kinetic/MHD hybrid code HMGC and the gyrokinetic full-f code TRIMEG-GKX are employed to study the mode structure deta…