CASTOR-K: Stability analysis of Alfvén eigenmodes in the presence of energetic ions in tokamaks

DOI10.1006/jcph.1999.6264zbMath0956.76032OpenAlexW2075481004MaRDI QIDQ1302909

Wolfgang Kerner, Duarte Borba

Publication date: 2 March 2000

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1999.6264

zbMATH Keywords

stability analysisplasma instabilitiesalpha particlescontrolled fusionCASTOR-K codeenergetic ionsglobal Alfvén waveshybrid magnetohydrodynamic-gyrokinetic modelideal MHD modelorbit integration algorithmstokamak geometrywave-particle energy exchange

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

Related Items (2)

HALO: a full-orbit model of nonlinear interaction of fast particles with eigenmodes ⋮ LIGKA: A linear gyrokinetic code for the description of background kinetic and fast particle effects on the MHD stability in tokamaks

Uses Software

• CASTOR

Cites Work

• Computation of the ideal-MHD continuous spectrum in axisymmetric plasmas
• Large-scale complex eigenvalue problems
• CASTOR: Normal-mode analysis of resistive MHD plasmas
• Hamiltonian guiding center drift orbit calculation for plasmas of arbitrary cross section
• Low-n shear Alfvén spectra in axisymmetric toroidal plasmas
• Macroscopic plasma oscillation bursts (fishbones) resulting from high-energy populations

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