The General Atomics GYRO Code

GYRO is a nonlinear tokamak microturbulence package designed to run on nearly all modern computing platforms, from an ultraportable laptop to the world's largest CRAY X1E/XT3/XT4 and IBM Blue Gene systems. Developed at General Atomics, GYRO uses a fixed (Eulerian) grid to solve the 5-D gyrokinetic-Maxwell equations. Operation is flexible, with the capability to treat

• a local (flux-tube) or global radial domain
• a full or partial torus
• general (shaped) or simple circular plasmas
• adiabatic, drift-kinetic or gyrokinetic electrons
• electrostatic or electromagnetic fluctuations
• experimental or user-defined physical parameters

News

• GYRO 7.1 released on 29 April 2008.
• Current CVS version is gyro-7.2cvs.
• VUGYRO documentation now available online.
• Some remarks on the perils of ETG simulation.

Important Links

• GYRO Developers and Users
• GYRO Transport Database (updated Jan. 2008)
• TGYRO Transport Module development