PPPL-3873 is available in <a href="PPPL-3873.pdf">pdf</a> format (928 KB).

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<b>Theoretical and Numerical Properties of a Gyrokinetic Plasma: Issues Related to Transport Time Scale Simulation
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<b>Author:</b> W.W. Lee
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<b>Date of PPPL Report:</b> September 2003
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<b>Submitted to:</b> Computer Physics Communications</p>


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Particle simulation has played an important role for the recent investigations on turbulence in magnetically confined plasmas. In this paper, theoretical and numerical properties of a gyrokinetic plasma as well as its relationship with magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) are discussed with the ultimate aim of simulating microturbulence in transport time scale using massively parallel computers.



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