Filament simulations for stellarators; a review of recent progress

B Shanahan - Frontiers in Physics, 2024 - frontiersin.org
A review of recent advances in simulations of turbulent filaments with relevance to
stellarators is presented. Progress in performing global edge turbulence simulations is …

Fluid simulations of plasma filaments in stellarator geometries with BSTING

B Shanahan, B Dudson, P Hill - Plasma Physics and Controlled …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Here we present first results simulating plasma filaments in non-axisymmetric geometries,
using a fluid turbulence extension of the BOUT++ framework. This is made possible by the …

Validation of GBS plasma turbulence simulation of the TJ-K stellarator

AJ Coelho, J Loizu, P Ricci, M Ramisch… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a validation of a three-dimensional, two-fluid simulation of plasma turbulence in
the TJ-K stellarator, a low temperature plasma experiment ideally suited for turbulence …

Global fluid turbulence simulations in the scrape-off layer of a stellarator island divertor

B Shanahan, D Bold, B Dudson - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2024 - cambridge.org
Isothermal fluid turbulence simulations have been performed in the edge and scrape-off
layer (SOL) of an analytic stellarator configuration with an island divertor, thereby providing …

The effects of non-uniform drive on plasma filaments

B Shanahan, B Dudson, P Hill - Journal of Physics: Conference …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Wendelstein 7-X core fueling is primarily achieved through pellet injection. The trajectory of
plasmoids from an ablating pellet is an ongoing research question, which is complicated by …

[HTML][HTML] A partially mesh-free scheme for representing anisotropic spatial variations along field lines: Conservation, quadrature, and the delta property

SA Maloney, BF McMillan - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
A method for representing highly anisotropic fields is presented, based on a partially
meshfree Galerkin formulation. A mapping function is used to provide information about the …

Global fluid turbulence simulations in the SOL of a stellarator island divertor

B Shanahan, D Bold, B Dudson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.18220, 2024 - arxiv.org
Isothermal fluid turbulence simulations have been performed in the edge and scrape-off-
layer (SOL) of an analytic stellarator configuration with an island divertor, thereby providing …

Development of Turbulence Simulations for the Edge & Divertor and Validation against Experiment

TAJ Body - 2022 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
For fusion to become a practical source of energy we need to understand and control the
edge. We extend the GRILLIX fluid-turbulence model to perform simulations in diverted …

Adapting meshfree Galerkin schemes for representing highly anisotropic fields

SA Maloney - 2023 - wrap.warwick.ac.uk
Two methods for representing highly anisotropic fields are presented, based on partially and
fully meshfree Galerkin formulations. In both, a mapping function is used to provide …

BSTING: fluid turbulence simulations in stellarators

B Shanahan, B Dudson, P Hill - … Workshop on Theory of …, 2018 - varenna-lausanne.epfl.ch
To allow for fully three dimensional turbulence simulations, the metric tensor components in
BOUT++ have been extended to vary in three dimensions. Following this extensive …