Electrostatic quasi-neutral formulation of global cross-separatrix particle simulation in field-reversed configuration geometry

A quasi-neutral blended drift-Lorentz particle model of the field-reversed configuration (FRC) has been developed and implemented in the particle-in-cell code named ANC. A field-aligned mesh and corresponding mesh operations are constructed for solving self-consistent electric fields in FRC geometry. Particle dynamics are described in cylindrical coordinates to allow for cross-separatrix simulation coupling the core and scrape-off layer regions of the FRC. This new model is successfully verified against analytically derived dispersion relations, and FRC turbulence is studied using the blended model for the first time.