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 …

In the perspective of operating tungsten monoblocks in WEST, the ongoing major upgrade of
the Tore Supra tokamak, a dedicated modelling effort has been carried out to simulate the …

The present work proposes a modified Pressure-Implicit Split-Operator (PISO) solver
integrating the recent Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) proposed by [1] in order to perform …

A two-equation model to self-consistently determine cross-field fluxes in the edge and
scrape-off layer (SOL) region of diverted plasma is used to complete 2D mean-field edge …

Turbulent dynamics in the scrape-off layer of magnetic fusion devices is intermittent with
large fluctuations in density and pressure. Therefore, a model is required that allows …

In order to model plasma interaction with full complexity of the geometry of PFCs, an
immersed method to impose boundary conditions has been implemented in the transport …

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 …

The development of an improved IBM method is proposed in the present article. This method
roots in efficient proposals developed for the simulation of incompressible flows, and it is …

The interaction between a plasma and a solid surface is studied in a (1D-1V) kinetic
approach using immersed boundary conditions and penalization to model the wall. Two …

With a proper choice of a single dimensionless control parameter one describes the
transition between subsonic and supersonic flows as a bifurcation. The bifurcation point is …