Benchmark Simulations of Gyro-Kinetic Electron and Fully-Kinetic Ion Model for Lower Hybrid Waves in Linear Region

LI Dehui(李德徽); XIANG Nong(项农); LIN Yu(林郁); WANG Xueyi(汪学毅); YANG Cheng(杨程); MA Jun(马骏)

doi:10.1088/1009-0630/16/9/03

Plasma Science and Technology > 2014 > 16(9): 821-825. > DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/16/9/03

LI Dehui(李德徽), XIANG Nong(项农), LIN Yu(林郁), WANG Xueyi(汪学毅), YANG Cheng(杨程), MA Jun(马骏). Benchmark Simulations of Gyro-Kinetic Electron and Fully-Kinetic Ion Model for Lower Hybrid Waves in Linear Region[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2014, 16(9): 821-825. DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/16/9/03

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Benchmark Simulations of Gyro-Kinetic Electron and Fully-Kinetic Ion Model for Lower Hybrid Waves in Linear Region

1 Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China 2 Center for Magnetic Fusion Theory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China 3 Physics Department, 206 Allison Laboratory, Auburn University, AL 36849-5311, USA

Funds: ∗ supported by Science Foundation of Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. Y35ETY1304), the JSPS- NRF-NSFC A3 Foresight Program in the Field of Plasma Physics (No. 11261140328), National ITER Plans Program of China (No. 2013GB111002) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11105178)

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Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation method has been proved to be a good candidate to study the interactions between plasmas and radio-frequency waves. However, for waves in the lower hybrid range of frequencies, a full PIC simulation is not efficient due to its high computational cost. In this work, a gyro-kinetic electron and fully-kinetic ion (GeFi) particle simulation model is applied to study the propagations and mode conversion processes of lower hybrid waves (LHWs) in plasmas. With this method, the computational efficiency of LHW simulations is greatly increased by using a larger grid size and time step. The simulation results in the linear regime are validated by comparison with the linear theory.
- gyro-kinetic,
- particle-in-cell simulation,
- lower hybrid waves

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