Progress of full-f gyrokinetic simulations including kinetic electrons

Idomura, Yasuhiro

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Gyrokinetics gives first principles based descriptions of multi-scale phenomena in fusion plasmas ranging from micro-scale plasma turbulence to macro-scale plasma profiles. The development of supercomputers enabled full-f gyrokinetic simulations, which directly compute the multi-scale problem, which conventional f simulation realized low cost simulations by avoiding the multi-scale problem under scale separation between them. Moreover, recent development of a kinetic electron model enabled more realistic numerical experiments including electron turbulence, and experimental observations, in which electron turbulence plays a critical role, have been analyzed. In this invited talk, the progress of full-f gyrokinetic simulations leading to the latest electron turbulence simulation is reviewed.