Five-Dimensional Kinetic Simulation of Anomalous Transport in Fusion Plasma
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With the aim of understanding the anomalous transport mechanism in the magnetic confinement fusion plasma and quantitatively predicting the transport level, gyrokinetic simulations of plasma turbulence have been carried out by means of the originally developed code (GKV code). The GKV simulations solving time-evolutions of particle distribution function in the five-dimensional phase-space have successfully reproduced the ion (or electron) temperature gradient turbulence in tokamak and helical devices, and have provided ones with valuable results for clarifying their saturation mechanisms.
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