For analyzing turbulence in magnetized plasmas

Latest source code of GKV is available on GitHub: GKV-developers



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GKV version gkvp_f0.55 - Jan. 21, 2020

Updates of gkvp_f0.55 are: implicit collision solver [S. Maeyama, et al., Comput. Phys. Commun. 235, 9 (2019).], implementation of background ExB shear flow, optimizations for reduced memory usage and efficient communication-computation overlap, and some minor modifications. Update of GKV Manual is in preperation.

GKV version gkvp_f0.48 - March 27, 2018

Features of gkvp_f0.48 are kinetic electrons/ions/impurities, electromagnetic fluctuations, MHD equilibrium interfaces for VMEC and EQDSK, and a multi-species collision operator. See GKV Manual on March 15, 2018, for details.




Copyright (c) GKV Developers, since 2006.
GKV is a free software WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. You can use, redistribute, and modify it under the term of the GNU General Public License.

We politely request that you cite the original GKV paper when you use GKV in publications:

  • Tomo-Hiko Watanabe, and Hideo Sugama, “Velocity-space structures of distribution function in toroidal ion temperature gradient turbulence”, Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 46, No. 1, 24 (2006).