Computational challenges in magnetic-confinement fusion physics

A Fasoli, S Brunner, WA Cooper, JP Graves, P Ricci… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Magnetic-fusion plasmas are complex self-organized systems with an extremely wide range
of spatial and temporal scales, from the electron-orbit scales (∼ 10− 11 s,∼ 10− 5 m) to the …

Global fluid simulations of edge plasma turbulence in tokamaks: a review

F Schwander, E Serre, H Bufferand, G Ciraolo… - Computers & …, 2024 - Elsevier
With ITER, the largest tokamak ever built, and the growing number of fusion energy startups
in the world, the need for numerical simulations has never been more crucial to progress …

The TOKAM3X code for edge turbulence fluid simulations of tokamak plasmas in versatile magnetic geometries

P Tamain, H Bufferand, G Ciraolo, C Colin… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The new code TOKAM3X simulates plasma turbulence in full torus geometry including the
open field lines of the Scrape-off Layer (SOL) and the edge closed field lines region in the …

The GBS code for tokamak scrape-off layer simulations

FD Halpern, P Ricci, S Jolliet, J Loizu, J Morales… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
We describe a new version of GBS, a 3D global, flux-driven plasma turbulence code to
simulate the turbulent dynamics in the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), superseding the code …

Boundary conditions for plasma fluid models at the magnetic presheath entrance

J Loizu, P Ricci, FD Halpern, S Jolliet - Physics of plasmas, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The proper boundary conditions at the magnetic presheath entrance for plasma fluid
turbulence models based on the drift approximation are derived, focusing on a weakly …

Hermes: global plasma edge fluid turbulence simulations

BD Dudson, J Leddy - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The transport of heat and particles in the relatively collisional edge regions of magnetically
confined plasmas is a scientifically challenging and technologically important problem …

Hermes-3: Multi-component plasma simulations with BOUT++

B Dudson, M Kryjak, H Muhammed, P Hill… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
A new open source tool for fluid simulation of multi-component plasmas is presented, based
on a flexible software design that is applicable to scientific simulations in a wide range of …

Electromagnetic full-gyrokinetics in the tokamak edge with discontinuous Galerkin methods

NR Mandell, A Hakim, GW Hammett… - Journal of Plasma …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We present an energy-conserving discontinuous Galerkin scheme for the full-, the inductive
component of the parallel electric field, using a generalized Ohm's law derived directly from …

GDB: A global 3D two-fluid model of plasma turbulence and transport in the tokamak edge

B Zhu, M Francisquez, BN Rogers - Computer Physics Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
The global drift-ballooning (GDB) code is developed to study tokamak edge low frequency
turbulence and transport, and their relationship to global profile evolution. The code employs …

Asymptotic-preserving methods and multiscale models for plasma physics

P Degond, F Deluzet - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
The purpose of the present paper is to provide an overview of Asymptotic-Preserving
methods for multiscale plasma simulations by addressing three singular perturbation …