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Mirrors/Open Systems Codes
Description |
Purpose |
Algorithms |
Results |
Publications
Short Description
Mirror and open magnetic system variants of the tokamak codes are under
development. CQL3D-M ("M" for mirror), MCGO-M, and GENRAY-C ("C" for Cartesian)
have been converted, at least in part, from their eponymous codes.
Fully nonlinear bounce-averaged collisional Fokker-Planck solutions are
obtained for f(vpar,vperp,rho;t) on transport time scales. Variation of f
along the magnetic field is obtained using COMs, giving a 2-space,2-velocity solution. These
codes will be further developed, and the
others will be converted from the tokamak versions as needed/funded.
Date/Active Use
2011
Authors
Yu.V. Petrov, R.W. Harvey
Language
F77/F90 + MPI
Purpose/Function/Special Features
The purpose is for applications to open magnetic systems such as the
Proto-MPEX [6,7], C-2U [8,9], and GDT[10,11].
Basic Algorithms
Equilibrium geometry is specified by analytical formulas and by
the eqdsk format files. For CQL3D-M, a parallel electric field
maintaining charge balance is
determined interatively at each time step.
Coupled Diagnostics
The CQL3D suite of diagnostics are available.
Key Results
Please see Refs. 7 and 9, below, for first results from GENRAY-C, and
Ref. 11 for first results from CQL3D-M. More recent work has focussed
on University and Wisconsin, Madison devices [4,3] and advancements [1,2].
A major new application of CQL3D-M is to use the obtained distributions
as an intial condition in a PIC code, leading to growth and quasi-saturation
of gyrokinetic instabilities in the PIC code. This couples the transport
time-scale CQL3D-M code to the micro-instability growth times in VPIC[12].
Selected Publications, and References
- Frank, S.J.; Viola, Jesse; Petrov, Yuri; Anderson, Jay; Bindl, Dominick, et al., "Confinement performance predictions for a high
field axisymmetric tandem mirror", Journal of Plasma Physics, Volume 91, E110, Published, 2025, DOI:
10.1017/S002237782510055X
- Caneses‐Marin, J.F.; Harvey, R.W.; Petrov, Y.V.; Forest, C.B.; Anderson, J.K., "Particle‐based modelling of axisymmetric tandem
mirror devices", Journal of Plasma Physics, Volume 91, E70, Published, 2025, DOI: 10.1017/S0022377824001715
- Petrov, Yuri; Harvey, Robert; Forest, Cary; Anderson, Jay, "Calculations of WHAM2 Mirror Neutron Rates and FI Transport
Using the GENRAY/ CQL3D‐M and MCGO‐M Codes", 49th European Conference on Plasma Physics, July 3‐7 2023, Bordeaux,
France., Published, 2023.
- ENDRIZZI, D., ANDERSON , J. K., BROWN, M., EGEDAL , J., GEIGER , B., HARVEY , R. W., IALOVEGA ,M., KIRCH , J., P ETERSON,
E., PETROV, Y. V., et al., "Physics basis for the wisconsin hts axisymmetric mirror experiment.", J. Plasma Phys, Volume 89,
975890501, Published, 2023, DOI: 10.1017/S0022377823001290 <\a>
- C.B. Forest 1 , J.K. Anderson1 , D. Endrizzi 2 , J. Egedal 1 , S. Frank 2, K. Furlong2 , M. Ialovega1 , J. Kirch1 , R.W. Harvey3 , B.
Lindley1 , Yu.V. Petrov3 , J. Pizzo1 , T. Qian 4 , K. Sanwalka1 , O. Schmitz1 , J. Wallace1 , D. Yakovlev1 and M. Yu1, "Prospects
for a high‐field, compact break‐evenaxisymmetric mirror (BEAM) and applications", J. Plasma Phys., Volume 90, 975900101,
Published, 2023, DOI: 10.1017/S0022377823001290 <\a>
- J. Rapp, L. W. Owen, X. Bonnin, J. F. Caneses, J. M. Canik, C. Corr, and
J. D. Lore, "Transport simulations of linear plasma generators with the B2.5-Eirene and EMC3-Eirene codes", J. Nucl. Mater. 463, 510–514 (2014).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.12.058
- S.J. Diem, David Lindsay Green, R.W. Harvey, and Yu.V. Petrov,
"An electron Bernstein wave heating scheme for the Proto-MPEX linear device",
Physics of Plasmas 25, 072124
(2018);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5033334
- TAE Technologies, TAE
- Xiaokang Yang, Yuri Petrov, Francesco Ceccherini, Alf Koehn, Laura
Galeotti, Sean Dettrick, Michl Binderbauer and the TAE Team, "Simulations
of High Harmonic Fast Wave Heating on the C-2U Advanced Beam-Driven
Field-Reversed Configuration Device", EPJ Web of Conferences 157, 03065
(2017).
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715703065
- A. A. Ivanov and V. V. Prikhodko, “Gas-dynamic trap: an overview of the concept and
experimental results,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 55, 063001 (2013).
https://doi:10.1088/0741-3335/55/6/063001 , Click here
- R. W. Harvey, Y. V. Petrov, and C. B. Forest, “3D distributions
resulting from neutral beam, ICRF and EC heating in an axisymmetric mirror,”
AIP Conference Proceedings 1771, 040002
(2016).
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4964187 , Click here
- Aaron Tran, Samuel J. Frank, Ari Y. Le, Adam J. Stanier, Blake A. Wetherton, Jan Egedal, Douglass A. Endrizzi, Robert W. Harvey, Yuri V. Petrov, Tony M. Qian, Kunal Sanwalka, Jesse Viola, Cary B. Forest and Ellen G. Zweibel, “Drift-cyclotron loss-cone instability in 3-D simulations of a sloshing-ion simple mirror”,
J. Plasma Phys. 91, E85 (2025). doi:10.1017/S0022377825000480
- Yuri V. Petrov, Robert W. Harvey, John C. Wright, Taosif Ahsan and Sam J. Frank,"Fokker-Planck simulations of fast ion ICRF and electron EC heating in a mirror plasma using CQL3D-m",
25th Topical Conference on Radio-Frequency Power in Plasmas (RFPPC2025),
EPJ Web of Conferences 346, 01018 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202634601018
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