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The role of plasma elongation on the linear damping of zonal flows

Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2008

LHD Bootstrap Current Coefficient Calculations with the VENUS+δ f code

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Trach-Minh Tran

2008

Long global gyrokinetic simulations: Source terms and particle noise control

Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

In global gyrokinetic simulations it takes a long time for the turbulence to reach a quasisteady state, and quantitative predictions about the quasisteady state turbulence have been difficult to obtain computationally. In particular, global particle-in-cel ...

American Institute of Physics2008

Integration of ISS into the Viola Meta-Scheduling Environment, Integrated Research in GRID Computing

Pierre Kuonen, Mark Sawley, Trach-Minh Tran, Vincent Keller

The authors present the integration of the Intelligent (Grid) Scheduling System into the VIOLA meta-scheduling environment which itself is based on the UNI-CORE Grid software. The goal of the new, integrated environment is to enable the submission of jobs ...

Springer US2007

Benchmark of a semi-Lagrangian and a Lagrangian code for gyrokinetic simulations

Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

2007

Noise control in global gyrokinetic particle simulations

Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

2007

Effects of Plasma Elongation on Geodesic Acoustic Modes

Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

2007

Development of a Semi-Lagrangian Gyrokinetic Simulation Code

Stephan Brunner, Trach-Minh Tran, Xavier Lapillonne

2007

3D warm effects for low-frequency wave propagation in magnetically confined plasmas

Stephan Brunner, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Nicolas Mellet

2007

A global collisionless PIC code in magnetic coordinates

Kurt Appert, Olivier Sauter, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

A global plasma turbulence simulation code, ORB5, is presented. It solves the gyrokinetic electrostatic equations including zonal flows in axisymmetric magnetic geometry. The present version of the code assumes a Boltzmann electron response on magnetic sur ...

Elsevier2007

Computational fusion plasma physics

Stephan Brunner, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Martin Jucker, Jonathan Graves, Paolo Angelino, Xavier Lapillonne

2007

Nonlinear low noise particle-in-cell simulations of electron temperature gradient driven turbulence

Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Ben McMillan

In this Letter, it is shown that global, nonlinear, particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of electron temperature driven turbulence recover the same level of transport as flux-tube codes when the level of statistical noise, associated with the PIC discretizat ...

American Institute of Physics2007

Computational fusion plasma physics

Stephan Brunner, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Martin Jucker, Jonathan Graves, Paolo Angelino, Xavier Lapillonne

2007

Nonlinear global gyrokinetic PIC simulations of Collisionless TEM turbulence

Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Xavier Lapillonne, Ben McMillan

2007

Recent evolution of the simulation tools for computer aided design of electron-optical systems for powerful gyrotrons

Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ioannis Pagonakis

Computer aided design of powerful gyrotrons for electron cyclotron resonance heating and current drive of fusion plasmas requires adequate physical models and efficient software packages for analysis, comparison and optimization of their electron-optical s ...

2007

Towards an Intelligent Grid Scheduling System

Pierre Kuonen, Mark Sawley, Trach-Minh Tran, Basile Schäli, Marc Torruella, Vincent Keller

The main objective of the Intelligent GRID Scheduling System (ISS) project is to provide a middleware infrastructure allowing a good positioning and scheduling of real life applications in a computational GRID. According to data collected on the machines i ...

Springer2006

On the definition of a kinetic equilibrium in global gyrokinetic simulations

Olivier Sauter, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino

Nonlinear electrostatic global gyrokinetic simulations of collisionless ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence and ExB zonal flows in axisymmetric toroidal plasmas are examined for different choices of the initial distribution function. Using a local Ma ...

American Institute of Physics2006

Global nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of ETG turbulence using particles

Olivier Sauter, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Emanuele Poli

2006

Plasma Shape Effects on Geodesic Acoustic Oscillations

Olivier Sauter, Trach-Minh Tran, Laurent Villard, Alberto Bottino, Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Angelino, Ben McMillan

2006

Stability properties of anisotropic pressure stellarator plasmas with fluid and noninteractive energetic particles

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Trach-Minh Tran, Jonathan Graves

The three-dimensional (3-D) VMEC code has been modified to model an energetic species with a variant of a Bi-Maxwellian distribution function that satisfies the constraint B . del F-h = 0, and the 3-D TERPSICHORE stability code has been extended to investi ...

2006

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