Journal
COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 181, Issue 4, Pages 715-719Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.12.001
Keywords
FEM; Spectral methods; Gyrokinetics
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Fluctuating quantities in magnetic confinement geometries often inherit a strong anisotropy along the field lines. One technique for describing these structures is the use of a certain set of Fourier components on the tori of nested flux surfaces. We describe an implementation of this approach for solving partial differential equations, like Poisson's equation, where a different set of Fourier components may be chosen on each surface according to the changing safety factor profile. Allowing the resolved components to change to follow the anisotropy significantly reduces the total number of degrees of freedom in the description. This can permit large gains in computational performance. We describe, in particular, how this approach can be applied to rapidly solve the gyrokinetic Poisson equation in a particle code, ORB5 (Jolliet et al., (2007) [5]), with a regular (non-field-aligned) mesh. (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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