Self-consistent simulation of plasma scenarios for ITER using a combination of 1.5D transport codes and free-boundary equilibrium codes
Abstract
Self-consistent transport simulation of ITER scenarios is a very important tool for the exploration of the operational space and for scenario optimisation. It also provides an assessment of the compatibility of developed scenarios (which include fast transient events) with machine constraints, in particular with the poloidal field (PF) coil system, heating and current drive (H&CD), fuelling and particle and energy exhaust systems. This paper discusses results of predictive modelling of all reference ITER scenarios and variants using two suite of linked transport and equilibrium codes. The first suite consisting of the 1.5D core/2D SOL code JINTRAC [1] and the free boundary equilibrium evolution code CREATE-NL [2,3], was mainly used to simulate the inductive D-T reference Scenario-2 with fusion gain Q=10 and its variants in H, D and He (including ITER scenarios with reduced current and toroidal field). The second suite of codes was used mainly for the modelling of hybrid and steady state ITER scenarios. It combines the 1.5D core transport code CRONOS [4] and the free boundary equilibrium evolution code DINA-CH [5].
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@article{arxiv.1310.8437,
title = {Self-consistent simulation of plasma scenarios for ITER using a combination of 1.5D transport codes and free-boundary equilibrium codes},
author = {V Parail and R Albanese and R Ambrosino and J-F Artaud and K Besseghir and M Cavinato and G Corrigan and J Garcia and L Garzotti and Y Gribov and F Imbeaux and F Koechl and C V Labate and J Lister and X Litaudon and A Loarte and P Maget and M Mattei and D McDonald and E Nardon and G Saibene and R Sartori and J Urban},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.8437},
year = {2013}
}
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23 pages, 18 figures