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Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation of scrape-off-layer plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2006

SEIJI ISHIGURO
Affiliation:
Theory and Computer Simulation Center, National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Soken-dai), Toki 509-5292, Japan
HIROKI HASEGWA
Affiliation:
Theory and Computer Simulation Center, National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan Present address: The Earth Simulator Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) 3173-25, showa-machi, kanazawa-ku, yokohama, 236-0001, Japan.

Abstract

Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation code for the investigation of physics in scrape-off-layer plasmas is developed. The code is parallelized by using High Performance Fortran (HPF) and good performance is attained in the computation at the Plasma Simulator at the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) (NEC SX-7/160M5). The code represents resonable physics related to sheath and presheath formation as well as the formation of the self-consistent potential structure related to blob transport across a magnetic field.

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Papers
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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