Computing ITG turbulence with a full-\(f\) semi-Lagrangian code

DOI10.1016/j.cnsns.2007.05.016zbMath1129.35462OpenAlexW2104597668MaRDI QIDQ2383069

G. Dif-Pradalier, X. Garbet, Philippe Ghendrih, Nicolas Besse, Virginie Grandgirard, Eric Sonnendrücker, Guillaume Latu, Yanick Sarazin, Nicolas Crouseilles, Pierre Bertrand

Publication date: 5 October 2007

Published in: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2007.05.016

zbMATH Keywords

semi-Lagrangian schemesVlasov equationplasma turbulencegyrokinetic equationnonlinear global gyrokinetic simulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

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Uses Software

• GYSELA

Cites Work

• The semi-Lagrangian method for the numerical resolution of the Vlasov equation
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