Results from a fully nonlinear three dimensional toroidal electrostatic gyrokinetic simulation of the ion temperature gradient instability are presented. The model has fully gyro-averaged ion dynamics, including trapped particles, and adiabatic electrons. Simulations of large tokamak plasma volumes are made possible due to recent advances in {delta}f methods and massively parallel computing. Linearly, a coherent ballooning eigenmode is observed, where the mode is radially elongated. In the turbulent steady-state, the spectrum peaks around k{theta} {rho}{sub s} {approximately} 0.1 with the ballooning structure reduced, but still prevalent.
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Results from a fully nonlinear three dimensional toroidal electrostatic gyrokinetic simulation of the ion temperature gradient instability are presented. The model has fully gyro-averaged ion dynamics, including trapped particles, and adiabatic electrons. Simulations of large tokamak plasma volumes are made possible due to recent advances in {delta}f methods and massively parallel computing. Linearly, a coherent ballooning eigenmode is observed, where the mode is radially elongated. In the turbulent steady-state, the spectrum peaks around k{theta} {rho}{sub s} {approximately} 0.1 with the ballooning structure reduced, but still prevalent.
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Parker, S. E.; Lee, W. W. & Santoro, R. A.Gyrokinetic simulation of ion temperature gradient driven turbulence in 3D toroidal geometry,
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