We present the first simulations of a reduced magnetized plasma model that incorporates both arbitrary wavelength polarization and non-Oberbeck–Boussinesq effects. Significant influence of these two effects on the density, electric potential and <i><b>E</i></b> × <i><b>B</i></b> vorticity and non-linear dynamics of interchange blobs are reported. Arbitrary wavelength polarization implicates so-called ...

A collisional gyro-fluid model is presented. The goal of the model is edge and scrape-off layer turbulence. The emphasize in the model derivation heavily lies on "implementability" with today's numerical methods. This translates to an avoidance of infinite sums, strongly coupled equations in time and intricate elliptic operator functions. The resulting model contains the four moments density, parallel ...

We investigate strategies to numerically integrate closed lines and surfaces that are implicitly defined by level sets (iso-contours) of continuously differentiable toroidally symmetric functions. The “grid-transform” approach transforms quantities given in non-surface-aligned coordinates onto a numerically constructed surface-aligned grid. Here, line and surface integrals, as well as so-called ...