Session

Minisymposium: MS5G - High Performance Computing in Kinetic Simulations of Plasmas - Part II: Physics Applications
Event TypeMinisymposium
Domains
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Physics
TimeWednesday, June 2911:00 - 13:00 CEST
LocationDarwin Room
DescriptionRecent advances in cutting-edge physics applications of kinetic theory in magnetized plasmas will be presented. Plasmas are subject to a multitude of collective effects including electromagnetic global modes, instabilities and turbulence, which span several orders of magnitude in space and time scales. Various dynamically reduced approaches, such as gyrokinetics or hybrid fluid-kinetic, have been developed to circumvent some of these difficulties, but even with these reductions the problem remains far from trivial. Thanks to progresses in numerical methods, algorithmic development, massive parallelization schemes enabling the efficient use of the most powerful HPC platforms, numerical simulations have gained increasing levels of realism, making possible scientific application studies nowadays that were previously out of reach. The minisymposium will address more specifically four aspects, all exploring frontiers of the domain. (1) The multiscale nature of turbulence. (2) Edge and SOL gyrokinetic turbulence. (3) Electromagnetic gyrokinetic turbulence and interaction with global modes. (4) Effects of suprathermal particles on MHD-like modes.