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Effects of plasma resistivity in three-dimensional full-F gyro-fluid turbulence simulations

19 Sep 2023arXiv:2309.10414links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

M. Wiesenberger, M. Held

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A full-F, isothermal, electromagnetic, gyro-fluid model is used to simulate plasma turbulence in a COMPASS-sized, diverted tokamak. A parameter scan covering three orders of magnitude of plasma resistivity and two values for the ion to electron temperature ratio with otherwise fixed parameters is setup and analysed. Simulations are performed with a new version of the FELTOR code, which is fully parallelized on GPUs. Each simulation covers a couple of milliseconds. Two transport regimes for high and low plasma resistivities are revealed. Beyond a critical resistivity the mass and energy confinement reduces with increasing resistivity. Further, for high plasma resistivity the direction of parallel acceleration is swapped compared to low resistivity. The integration of exact conservation laws over the closed field line region allows for an identification of numerical errors within the simulations. The electron force balance and energy conservation show relative errors on the order of 10⁻³ while the particle conservation and ion momentum balance show errors on the order of 10⁻². Relative fluctuations amplitudes increase from below 1% in the core to 15% in the edge and up to 40% in the scrape-off layer. Finally, three-dimensional visualisations using ray tracing techniques are displayed and discussed. The field-alignment of turbulent fluctuations in density and parallel current becomes evident.

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