Whole-volume integrated gyrokinetic simulation of plasma turbulence in realistic diverted-tokamak geometry

C. S. Chang, S. Ku, P. Diamond, M. Adams, R. Barreto, Y. Chen, J. Cummings, E. D'Azevedo, G. Dif-Pradalier, S. Ethier, L. Greengard, S. Hahm, F. Hinton, D. Keyes, S. Klasky, Z. Lin, J. Lofstead, G. Park, S. Parker, N. PodhorszkiK. Schwan, A. Shoshani, D. Silver, M. Wolf, P. Worley, H. Weitzner, E. Yoon, D. Zorin

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Abstract

Performance prediction for ITER is based upon the ubiquitous experimental observation that the plasma energy confinement in the device core is strongly coupled to the edge confinement for an unknown reason. The coupling time-scale is much shorter than the plasma transport time-scale. In order to understand this critical observation, a multi-scale turbulence-neoclassical simulation of integrated edge-core plasma in a realistic diverted geometry is a necessity, but has been a formidable task. Thanks to the recent development in high performance computing, we have succeeded in the integrated multiscale gyrokinetic simulation of the ion-temperature-gradient driven turbulence in realistic diverted tokamak geometry for the first time. It is found that modification of the self-organized criticality in the core plasma by nonlocal core-edge coupling of ITG turbulence can be responsible for the core-edge confinement coupling.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number012057
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume180
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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