Boesl, M.Bergmann, A.Bottino, A.Coster, D.Lanti, E.Ohana, N.Jenko, F.2020-01-182020-01-182020-01-182019-12-0110.1063/1.5121262https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/164659WOS:000505578200033While in recent years gyrokinetic simulations have become the workhorse for theoretical turbulence and transport studies in the plasma core, their application to the edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) region presents significant challenges. In particular, steep density and temperature gradients as well as large fluctuation amplitudes call for a "full-f" treatment. To specifically study problems in the SOL region, the gyrokinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code PICLS has been developed. The code is based on an electrostatic full-f model with linearized field equations and uses kinetic electrons. Here, the well-studied parallel transport problem during an edge-localized mode in the SOL shall be investigated for one spatial dimension. The results are compared to previous gyrokinetic continuum and fully kinetic PIC simulations and show good agreement.Physics, Fluids & PlasmasPhysicstext::journal::journal article::research article