The nonlinear gyro-kinetic flux tube code GKW

This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2018)

Abstract
A new nonlinear gyro-kinetic flux tube code (GKW) for the simulation of micro instabilities and turbulence in magnetic confinement plasmas is presented in this paper. The code incorporates all physics effects that can be expected from a state of the art gyro-kinetic simulation code in the local limit: kinetic electrons, electromagnetic effects, collisions, full general geometry with a coupling to a MHD equilibrium code, and E × B shearing. In addition the physics of plasma rotation has been i...

Title of program: GKW
Catalogue Id: AEES_v1_0

Nature of problem
Five dimensional gyro-kinetic Vlasov equation in general flux tube tokamak geometry with kinetic electrons, electro-magnetic effects and collisions.

Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data
AEES_v1_0; GKW; 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.07.001