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physics.plasm-ph2026

Frequency Chirping of Energetic-Particle-Driven Geodesic Acoustic Modes in Tokamaks

R. Wu, A. Biancalani, M. V. Falessi +5

A suprathermal population of ions is present in tokamak plasmas due to external heating mechanisms and fusion reactions. These energetic particles (EPs) can drive waves unstable, v…

physics.plasm-ph2026

On nonlinear saturation of toroidal Alfvén eigenmode due to thermal plasma nonlinearities

Ningfei Chen, Thomas Hayward-Schneider, Fulvio Zonca +7

The nonlinear saturation of toroidal Alfven eigenmode (TAE) due to thermal plasma nonlinearities is investigated using gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations and theoretical anal…

physics.plasm-ph2025

On How Zonal Fields Suppress Reversed Shear Alfvén Eigenmode in Tokamak Plasmas

Ruirui Ma, Pengfei Liu, Liu Chen +2

Employing both nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations and theoretical analyses, we have discovered the novel result that, with energetic particle dynamics kept linear, the nonlinear sup…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Excitation of toroidal Alfvén eigenmode by energetic particles in DTT and effect of negative triangularity

Guangyu Wei, Fulvio Zonca, Matteo Valerio Falessi +1

A linear gyrokinetic eigenvalue code is developed to study the stability of toroidal Alfvén eigenmode (TAE) in general axisymmetric toroidal geometry, with the self-consistent tre…

physics.plasm-ph2024

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-…