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The water bag model and gyrokinetic applications

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Predicting turbulent transport in nearly collisionless fusion plasmas requires to solve kinetic (or more precisely gyrokinetic) equations. In spite of considerable progress, several pending issues remain; although more accurate, the kinetic calculation of turbulent transport is much more demanding in computer resources than fluid simulations. An alternative approach is based on a water bag representation of the distribution function which is not an approximation but rather a special class of initial conditions allowing to reduce the full kinetic Vlasov equation into a set of hydrodynamic equations while keeping its kinetic character. This model has been applied to gyrokinetic modelling with very encouraging results. The instability threshold for ITG instability is found to be very close to the results obtained from continuous Maxwellian distribution, even for only 10 bags.

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hal-00594862 , version 1 (21-05-2011)

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Pierre Morel, E. Gravier, Nicolas Besse, Alain Ghizzo, Pierre Bertrand. The water bag model and gyrokinetic applications. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 2008, 13 (1), pp.11-17. ⟨10.1016/j.cnsns.2007.03.016⟩. ⟨hal-00594862⟩
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