학술논문

Gyrokinetic-ion drift-kinetic-electron simulation of the (m=2, n=1) cylindrical tearing mode.
Document Type
Article
Source
Physics of Plasmas. 2016, Vol. 23 Issue 5, p056101-1-056101-7. 7p. 8 Graphs.
Subject
*ELECTRON synchrotrons
*POSITRONIUM
*ELECTRON counters
*CATHODE rays
*LEPTONS (Nuclear physics)
Language
ISSN
1070-664X
Abstract
Particle-in-cell simulations of (m = 2; n = 1) tearing mode in cylindrical plasmas are carried out with kinetic electrons using the split-weight control-variate algorithm [Y. Chen and S. E. Parker, J. Comput. Phys. 220, 839 (2007)]. Radially, global simulation shows global mode structure in agreement with reduced-magnetohydrodynamic eigenmode calculation. Simulations of the tearing layer are verified with analytic results for the collisionless, semi-collisional, and drift-tearing mode. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]