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Gyrokinetic PIC
- Gyrokinetic ordering
- Formal transformation of coordinates to eliminate gyro-orbit motion to any desired order in
- Modified, gyrokinetic particle equations of motion
- Describe motion of gyrocenters
- Modified, gyrokinetic EM field equation
- Usefulness: low-frequency tokamak microinstabilities (Numerical Tokamak Project (NTP))
The 
Method
- Model only perturbation of
from fixed background (
)
Gyrokinetic PIC Simulation on Massively Parallel Processors - (lecture given 6/23/95)
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