Impact of realistic fast ion distribution function in gyrokinetic GENE simulations

• Understanding the stabilising mechanism of fast particles on plasma turbulence is an essential task for a fusion reactor, where the energetic particles can constitute a significant fraction of the main ions. While the consideration of equivalent Maxwellian distributed fast ions in the simulations has greatly improved the agreement with experiments, fast ion electromagnetic stabilization seems to be somewhat over-estimated. Power balance is usually reached only with increased plasma gradients. However, it is well known that to rigorously model highly non thermalised particles, a non-Maxwellian background distribution function is needed. To this aim, a previous study on a particular JET plasma has been revised and analysed with the gyrokinetic code GENE. Fast particles have been modelled with a number of different analytic and numerical distributions. The latter have been imported from the modelling tools NEMO/SPOT and SELFO. 

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Fusion, plasma och rymdfysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Genes

Ions

Plasma turbulence

Energetic particles

Fast particle

Gyrokinetic codes

Gyrokinetics

Main ions

Modelling tools

Plasma gradients

Power balance

Distribution functions

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