A new gyrokinetic quasilinear transport model applied to particle transport in tokamak plasmas
- 1 November 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Plasmas
- Vol. 14 (11), 112501
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2800869
Abstract
The scope of this paper is to present and benchmark the first version of a quasilinear calculation, QuaLiKiz, based on a fast linear gyrokinetic code, Kinezero [C. Bourdelle, X. Garbet, G. T. Hoang, J. Ongena, and R. V. Budny, Nucl. Fusion 42, 892 (2002)] accounting for all unstable modes and summing over a wave-number spectrum. The fluctuating electrostatic potential frequency and wave-number spectra are chosen based on turbulence measurements and nonlinear simulations results. A peculiar focus on particle transport is developed. The directions of compressibility and thermodiffusion convections of ions and electrons are analytically derived for passing and trapped particles in both ion and electron turbulence. Also, the charge and mass dependence of trace heavy impurity convection is analytically estimated. These results are compared with quasilinear simulations done by QuaLiKiz. Finally, the impact of accounting for all unstable modes and of summing over the wave-number spectrum is shown to reverse in some cases the direction of particle fluxes.Keywords
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