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Kinetic Electromagnetic Analysis
Substantive progress on the challenges of developing a fully-kinetic analysis capability for electromagnetic instabilities has been made. Major advances in providing a firm theoretical foundation have come from using the gyrokinetic approach to study global MHD modes with kinetic effects. Generalized gyrokinetic equations were derived including the ability to account for high frequency modes such as Ion Bernstein Wave and Compressional Alfven waves [H. Qin et al., Phys. Plasmas (May, 1999)]. Building from earlier low-wavelength electrostatic (global) microinstability codes, a new electromagnetic code, KIN-2D, has now been developed. Numerical results for the n=1 kink mode and the n=2 TAE mode have been successfully benchmarked against the PEST and NOVA-K codes [H. Qin et al., submitted to Phys. Plasmas (1999)].
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