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Geodesic Acoustic Modes in pair plasmas confined in tokamak magnetic fields
Alessandro Biancalani
This paper is devoted to the derivation of the dispersion relation of the Geodesic Acoustic Mode in pair plasmas, i.e. assuming that ions and electrons have the same mass. Geodesic…
Nonlinear oscillations of the amplitude of energetic-particle induced geodesic acoustic modes
E. Sida, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino +2
Energetic particle induced geodesic acoustic modes (EGAMs) are axisymmetric perturbations of the radial electric field in tokamak plasmas. They are driven unstable by the phase spa…
Energetic particles, Shafranov shift and finite effects on TAE, KBM and ITG instabilities in global electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulations
B. Rofman, G. Di Giannatale, A. Mishchenko +8
Burning plasma is computationally challenging to simulate due to the multi-scale interactions between energetic particles (EPs), Alfven eigenmodes, and microinstabilities that driv…
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…
Nonlinear generation of global zonal structures in gyrokinetic simulations of TCV and ASDEX Upgrade magnetic configurations
I. Novikau, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino +6
In tokamaks, turbulence is responsible not only for the anomalous transport of heat and particles from the core to the edge, which reduces heating efficiency, but also for the gene…
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…
Role of Shafranov shift, zonal structures on the behavior of TAEs, AAEs and microinstabilities in the presence of energetic particles
B. Rofman, G. Di Giannatale, A. Mishchenko +8
In future nuclear fusion reactors, even a small fraction of fusion-born energetic particles (EP) about 100 times hotter than the thermal bulk species, contributes substantially to…
Dynamics of ion temperature gradient modes in burning plasma conditions in the presence of energetic particles
Roman Ivanov, Alessandro Biancalani, Alberto Bottino +4
The interaction between energetic particles (EPs) and ion temperature gradient (ITG) modes is studied using the global particle in cell ORB5 code. In this work, we extend previous…
Modulational instability of Geodesic-Acoustic-Mode packets
David Korger, Emanuele Poli, Alessandro Biancalani +3
Isolated, undamped geodesic-acoustic-mode (GAM) packets have been demonstrated to obey a (focusing) nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) [E. Poli, Phys. Plasmas 2021]. This equati…
Ion temperature gradient mode mitigation by energetic particles, mediated by forced-driven zonal flows
Juvert Njeck Sama, Alessandro Biancalani, Alberto Bottino +14
In this work, we use the global electromagnetic and electrostatic gyro kinetic approaches to investigate the effects of zonal flows forced-driven by Alfvén modes due to their excit…
Nonlinear interaction of Alfvénic instabilities and turbulence via the modification of the equilibrium profiles
A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, D. Del Sarto +10
Nonlinear simulations of Alfvén modes (AM) driven by energetic particles (EP) in the presence of turbulence are performed with the gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5. The AMs c…
Effect of temperature anisotropy on the dynamics of geodesic acoustic modes
J. N. Sama, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino +7
In this work, we revisit the linear gyro-kinetic theory of geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) and derive a general dispersion relation for an arbitrary equilibrium distribution functio…
Gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in the presence of fast particles and global modes
A. Mishchenko, A. Bottino, T. Hayward-Schneider +13
Global simulations of electromagnetic turbulence, collisionless tearing modes, and Alfven Eigenmodes in the presence of fast particles are carried out using the gyrokinetic particl…
Gyrokinetic modelling of the Alfvén mode activity in ASDEX Upgrade with an isotropic slowing-down fast-particle distribution
Francesco Vannini, Alessandro Biancalani, Alberto Bottino +8
In the present paper, the evolution of the Alfvén modes is studied in a realistic ASDEX Upgrade equilibrium by analysing the results of simulations with the global, electromagnetic…
Phase and amplitude evolution in the network of triadic interactions of the Hasegawa-Wakatani system
Ö. D. Gürcan, J. Anderson, S. Moradi +2
Hasegawa-Wakatani system, commonly used as a toy model of dissipative drift waves in fusion devices is revisited with considerations of phase and amplitude dynamics of its triadic…
Gyrokinetic modelling of anisotropic energetic particle driven instabilities in tokamak plasmas
Brando Rettino, Thomas Hayward-Schneider, Alessandro Biancalani +5
Energetic particles produced by neutral beams are observed to excite energetic-particle-driven geodesic acoustic modes (EGAMs) in tokamaks. We study the effects of anisotropy of di…
Linear and nonlinear excitation of TAE modes by external electromagnetic perturbations using ORB5
Mohsen Sadr, Alexey Mishchenko, Thomas Hayward-Schneider +6
The excitation of toroidicity induced Alfv{é}n eigenmodes (TAEs) using prescribed external electromagnetic perturbations (hereafter ``antenna") acting on a confined toroidal plasma…
Numerics and computation in gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence with global particle-in-cell codes
Alexey Mishchenko, Alessandro Biancalani, Alberto Bottino +7
Electromagnetic turbulence is addressed in tokamak and stellarator plasmas with the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell codes ORB5 [E. Lanti et al, Comp. Phys. Comm, vol. 251, 1070…
Gyrokinetic investigation of the nonlinear interaction of Alfvén instabilities and energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic modes
F. Vannini, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino +6
This paper presents a study of the interaction between Alfvén modes and zonal structures, considering a realistic ASDEX Upgrade equilibrium. The results of gyrokinetic simulations…
Gyrokinetic investigation of Alfvén instabilities in the presence of turbulence
A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, A. Di Siena +10
The nonlinear dynamics of beta-induced Alfvén Eigenmodes (BAE) driven by energetic particles (EP) in the presence of ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) turbulence is investigated, by m…
Gyrokinetic investigation of Alfvén instabilities in the presence of turbulence
A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, A. Di Siena +5
The global and electromagnetic gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5 is employed to investigate the self-consistent interactions between Alfvén modes (AM) and ion temperature grad…
Nonlinear dynamics of energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic modes in ASDEX Upgrade
I. Novikau, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino +9
Turbulence in tokamaks generates radially sheared zonal flows. Their oscillatory counterparts, geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs), appear due to the action of the magnetic field curvat…
Effect of the electron redistribution on the nonlinear saturation of Alfvén eigenmodes and the excitation of zonal flows
A. Biancalani, A. Bottino, P. Lauber +2
Numerical simulations of Alfvén modes (AM) driven by energetic particles are performed with the GK global PIC code ORB5. A reversed shear equilibrium magnetic field is adopted. A s…
Gyrokinetic investigation of the damping channels of Alfvén modes in ASDEX Upgrade
F. Vannini, A. Biancalani, A. Bottino +6
The linear destabilization and nonlinear saturation of energetic-particle driven Alfvénic instabilities in tokamaks strongly depend on the damping channels. In this work, the colli…