Abstract
Radial neoclassical transport from the global gyrokinetic code XGC has been cross-verified against the local drift-kinetic neoclassical code NEO in NEO's local regime using a Grad-Shafranov equilibrium with a circular boundary. XGC shows excellent agreement with NEO, except for a difference of approximately 10% in the ion heat flux. Close investigation reveals that this difference is due to the simplification in NEO to use the same Coulomb logarithm ln Λ to represent all particle species, while XGC uses different formulas for collisions between different species [J. D. Huba, NRL Plasma Formulary (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 2018)]. When XGC uses NEO's Coulomb logarithm, excellent agreement in the ion heat flux is recovered. The present work not only crossverifies the equation solvers in two codes, but also verifies that the gyrokinetic and the drift-kinetic equations agree and that the linearized and nonlinear Coulomb collision operators agree in the mild gradient, local regime.
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