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most citedInterpreting Radial Correlation Doppler Reflectometry using Gyrokinetic Simulations

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physics.plasm-ph2026

Dynamic Optimization Workflow for Gyrokinetic Stability and Transport

E. A. Belli, J. Larson, J. Candy +1

A dynamic optimization workflow for linear gyrokinetic stability that couples the gyrokinetic code CGYRO with the libEnsemble framework for ensemble management has been developed.…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Electron-Scale-Driven Turbulence by Negative-Density-Gradient in NSTX

C. Clauser, J. Candy, J. Parisi +7

Gyrokinetic simulations of an NSTX spherical-tokamak plasma reveal novel negative-density-gradient (NDG) drift waves at electron-gyroradius-scale that drive turbulent transport com…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Integrating Gyrokinetic Flux Predictions with Ideal MHD Stability Boundaries

J. McClenaghan, K. E. Thome, T. F. Neiser +5

Accurate prediction of pedestal height and width in tokamaks remains a critical issue as it strongly influences the predicted plasma performance of all future reactors. We present…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Impact of energetic alpha particles on core turbulence in an ARC-class fusion power plant

J. Hall, N. T Howard, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez +7

In this work, we investigate the impact of fusion-born alpha particles on core turbulence and transport in the ARC tokamak fusion power plant using linear and nonlinear gyrokinetic…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Non-dimensional confinement scaling in similar negative triangularity plasmas on the DIII-D and TCV tokamaks

A. Marinoni, C. Chrystal, S. Coda +25

Similarity experiments were performed on the DIII-D and TCV tokamaks to explore the scaling of energy confinement in negative triangularity plasmas using non-dimensional variables.…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Predicting core transport in ITER baseline discharges with neon injections

Dmitri M Orlov, Joseph McClenaghan, Jeff Candy +4

Achieving self-consistent performance predictions for ITER requires integrated modeling of core transport and divertor power exhaust under realistic impurity conditions. We present…

cs.DC2025

Minimizing CGYRO HPC Communication Costs in Ensembles with XGYRO by Sharing the Collisional Constant Tensor Structure

Igor Sfiligoi, Emily A. Belli, Jeff Candy

First-principles fusion plasma simulations are both compute and memory intensive, and CGYRO is no exception. The use of many HPC nodes to fit the problem in the available memory th…

cs.DC2024

Evaluation of Intel Max GPUs for CGYRO-based fusion simulations

Igor Sfiligoi, Jeff Candy, Emily A. Belli

Intel Max GPUs are a new option available to CGYRO fusion simulation users. This paper outlines the changes that were needed to successfully run CGYRO on Intel Max 1550 GPUs on TAC…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Verification of Fast Ion Effects on Turbulence through Comparison of GENE and CGYRO with L-mode Plasmas in KSTAR

Donguk Kim, Taeuk Moon, Choongki Sung +7

This study presents a cross-verification of fast ion effects on turbulence through a systematic comparison of two leading gyrokinetic codes, GENE [F. Jenko et al., Phys. Plasmas 7…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 1 cited

Stable Deuterium-Tritium burning plasmas with improved confinement in the presence of energetic-ion instabilities

Jeronimo Garcia, Yevgen Kazakov, Rui Coelho +18

Providing stable and clean energy sources is a necessity for the increasing demands of humanity. Energy produced by fusion reactions, in particular in tokamaks, is a promising path…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 19 cited

Interpreting Radial Correlation Doppler Reflectometry using Gyrokinetic Simulations

J. Ruiz Ruiz, F. I. Parra, V. H. Hall-Chen +12

A linear response, local model for the DBS amplitude applied to gyrokinetic simulations shows that radial correlation Doppler reflectometry measurements (RCDR, Schirmer et al., Pla…

physics.plasm-ph2011

An Enhanced Nonlinear Critical Gradient for Electron Turbulent Transport due to Reversed Magnetic Shear

J. L. Peterson, G. W. Hammett, D. R. Mikkelsen +5

The first nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of electron internal transport barriers (e-ITBs) in the National Spherical Torus Experiment show that reversed magnetic shear can suppre…