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Method to integrate full particle orbit in toroidal plasmas
Author(s) -
Xishuo Wei,
Yong Xiao,
Animesh Kuley,
Zhihong Lin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
physics of plasmas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1089-7674
pISSN - 1070-664X
DOI - 10.1063/1.4929799
Subject(s) - physics , guiding center , toroid , orbit (dynamics) , cyclotron , computational physics , polarization (electrochemistry) , circular orbit , plasma , charged particle , pinch , classical mechanics , aerospace engineering , ion , quantum mechanics , chemistry , engineering
It is important to integrate full particle orbit accurately when studying charged particle dynamics in electromagnetic waves with frequency higher than cyclotron frequency. We have derived a form of the Boris scheme using magnetic coordinates, which can be used effectively to integrate the cyclotron orbit in toroidal geometry over a long period of time. The new method has been verified by a full particle orbit simulation in toroidal geometry without high frequency waves. The full particle orbit calculation recovers guiding center banana orbit. This method has better numeric properties than the conventional Runge-Kutta method for conserving particle energy and magnetic moment. The toroidal precession frequency is found to match that from guiding center simulation. Many other important phenomena in the presence of an electric field, such as E×B drift, Ware pinch effect and neoclassical polarization drift are also verified by the full orbit simulation.

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