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  • The development of an impli...
    Lu, Z.X.; Meng, G.; Hoelzl, M.; Lauber, Ph

    Journal of computational physics, 09/2021, Volume: 440
    Journal Article

    •The analytical derivation of the moment enslavement scheme with good convergence.•Successful application to the 1D shear Alfvén wave in a broad range of β/me.•The development of the mixed particle-in-cell-particle-in-Fourier scheme in torus.•Simulations of toroid Alfvén eigenmodes using a widely studied ITPA case. In this work, an implicit scheme for particle-in-cell/Fourier electromagnetic simulations is developed and applied to studies of Alfvén waves in one dimension and three dimensional tokamak plasmas. An analytical treatment is introduced to achieve efficient convergence of the iterative solution of the implicit field-particle system. First, its application to the one-dimensional uniform plasma demonstrates its applicability in a broad range of β/me values. Second, toroidicity induced Alfvén eigenmodes (TAE) are simulated in a three dimensional axisymmetric tokamak plasma, using the widely studied case defined by the International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) Energetic Particle (EP) Topical Group. The real frequency and the growth (or damping) rate of the TAE with (or without) EPs agree with previous results reasonably well. The full f electromagnetic particle scheme established in this work provides a possible natural choice for EP transport studies where large profile variation and arbitrary particle distribution functions need to be treated in kinetic simulations.