Milestone in predicting core plasma turbulence: successful multi-channel validation of the gyrokinetic code GENE

On the basis of several recent breakthroughs in fusion research, many activities have been launched around the world to develop fusion power plants on the fastest possible time scale. In this context, high-fidelity simulations of the plasma behavior on large supercomputers provide one of the main pathways to accelerating progress by guiding crucial design decisions. When it comes to determining the energy confinement time of a magnetic confinement fusion device, which is a key quantity of interest, gyrokinetic turbulence simulations are considered the approach of choice - but the question, whether they are really able to reliably predict the plasma behavior is still open. The present study addresses this important issue by means of careful comparisons between state-of-the-art gyrokinetic turbulence simulations with the GENE code and experimental observations in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak for an unprecedented number of simultaneous plasma observables.

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Milestone in predicting core plasma turbulence: successful multi-channel validation of the gyrokinetic code GENE

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Milestone in predicting core plasma turbulence: successful multi-channel validation of the gyrokinetic code GENE

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Abstract

On the basis of several recent breakthroughs in fusion research, many activities have been launched around the world to develop fusion power plants on the fastest possible time scale. In this context, high-fidelity simulations of the plasma behavior on large supercomputers provide one of the main pathways to accelerating progress by guiding crucial design decisions. When it comes to determining the energy confinement time of a magnetic confinement fusion device, which is a key quantity of interest, gyrokinetic turbulence simulations are considered the approach of choice - but the question, whether they are really able to reliably predict the plasma behavior is still open. The present study addresses this important issue by means of careful comparisons between state-of-the-art gyrokinetic turbulence simulations with the GENE code and experimental observations in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak for an unprecedented number of simultaneous plasma observables.

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University of Stuttgart (DE), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE), ITER (FR), National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (IT), Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), University of Wisconsin–Madison (US), Università degli Studi della Tuscia (IT), University of Lisbon (PT), École Polytechnique (FR), TU Wien (AT), Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE), University of Cagliari (IT), Politecnico di Torino (IT), Durham University (GB), Universität Innsbruck (AT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN), Aix-Marseille Université (FR), Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR), University College Cork (IE), Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (US), Barcelona Supercomputing Center (ES), Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (UA), Ghent University Hospital (BE), Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (CN), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU), Graz University of Technology (AT), Culham Science Centre (GB), CEA Cadarache (FR), Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plasma Physics (CZ), Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics - Greifswald (DE), Plasma Technology (United States) (US), Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (DE), Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci (FR), Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion (PL), Institut Jean Lamour (FR), Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (FR), HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research (HU), ENEA Frascati Research Centre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH), University of York (GB), Technical University of Munich (DE), General Atomics (United States) (US), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US), University of Milano-Bicocca (IT), Chalmers University of Technology (SE), Universidad de Sevilla (ES), Eindhoven University of Technology (NL), University of California, Davis (US), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (FI), Université de Lorraine (FR), Ioffe Institute (RU), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (ES), Technical University of Denmark (DK), Aalto University (FI)
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