| Target |
Needed elements |
Timeframe (tentative) |
| Current ramp up simulation |
- Transport models
- NCLASS (or equivalent)
- free boundary equilibrium code
|
07/2011 |
| ECRH |
- equilibrium
- plasma background
- antennas; machine description
- modulation
|
07/2011 |
| ECRH + MHD |
- NTM
- ecrh
- 2d/3d profile (?)
- 3d (?) equilibrium
- need communication that bypasses ETS
|
end 2012 |
| ICRF waves |
- equilibrium
- plasma background
- antennas; machine description
|
03/2011 |
| NBI |
- Import previous benchmarks between ASCOT/TRANSP/PENCIL from JET (exp2ITM)
|
end 2011 |
| Fokker-Planck |
- Mainly time-dependent workflow
- Input
- equilibrium
- plasma background
- waves, or distsource (nbi/alpha source)
- Validation against experimental results (JET, AUG, TS)
- Fast particle effects
- Neutrons spectra/rates; nuclear data
- Comparison require synthetic diagnostics
|
2012 -- 2013 |
| Fast particles losses to walls |
- Time-dependent workflow
- Input
- equilibrium extending to the wall
- 3d equilibrium needed to investigate ripple losses; machine description for coil systems
- 3d wall required to estimate power loads and for sythetic diagnostics (e.g. scintilator probe in JET); machine description
- coreprof
- neutrals in core out to real wall (for charge exchange losses)
- cross-sections for charge exchange processes
- Validation
- Limter heating in JET ripple experiments
- Scintillator measurements JET/AUG
|
2012 -- 2013 |
| Coupling of ICRH/LH waves |
- Mainly single time slice
- Input
- antennas; machine descriptions
- edge (density between antenna and plasma)
- equilibrium
- coreprof
|
2012 -- 2016 |
| Scan over shots |
- UALinit and UALcollector both inside loop
|
implemented, being tested |
| Reflectometry |
- turbulence
- equilibrium
- antenna
- coreprof
- edge
|
10/2011 |
| Stability with linear microstability |
- existing MHD stability chain with additional modules from IMP4
|
end 2011 |
| Stability with neoclassical |
- existing MHD stability chain with additional module (NCLASS or equivalent) from IMP4
|
10/2011 |
| pellet ablation workflow |
- pellet module
- coreprof
- equilibrium
- synthetic diagnostics
|
|
| sawteeth |
- coreprof
- equilibrium
- pellets
- icrh (including fast particle redistribution and fast particle stabilization)
- ecrh
- (?) 3D equilibrium with anisotropy
|
2011 -- 2014 |
| effect of fast particles on Alfvenic modes |
- equilibrium
- coreprof
- modification of energetic partcile distribution by Alfven Eigenmodes
- sources of fast particles (ICRH, NBI, fusion)
- later non-linear MHD
|
2011 -- 2014 |
| Stability with fast particles (I) |
- existing MHD stability chain with additional modules from IMP5 ("LEMAN")
|
07/2011 |
| Stability with fast particles (II) |
- existing MHD stability chain with additional modules from IMP5 ("LEMAN"); ETS type workflow
|
end 2011 |
| Feedback control |
- free boundary equilibrium
- ntm
- sawteeth
- beta
- synthetic diagnostics (EDRG)
- modules need to accept information from controllers (moving mirrors , ...)
|
2011 -- 2012 |
| Edge |
- coreprof
- equilibrium (grid generator)
- edge (SOLPS, ASPOEL)
- machine description (wall, pumping)
- neutrals in core out to real wall
|
end 2012 |
| surface/plasma interaction |
|
end 2013 |
| mimic "chain2" |
- 100 -- 1000 snapshots / discharge
- 20 (or more) radial points
- equilibrium (EQUAL)
- heating (FPSIM - PION-equivalent, except lacking IC/NBI coupling; ECRH; NBI)
- transport coefficients (derived from profiles and sources --- ETS must be able to work in interpretive mode)
- used to produce reference core profiles on JET (Te, ne, ... [1d])
- run time at JET approximately 10 hours
|
03/2011 |
| beat TRANSP |
- interpretive mode (nubeam replaced by ASCOT)
- predictive; sytnthetic diagnostics
|
end 2011 |
| ELMs |
- edge stability
- ETS
- equilibrium
- neoclassic
- linear stability
- build database
- build transport models
- continuous ELM
- ELM resolved
|
first part: 03/2011 |
| current drive and heating |
- equilibrium reconstruction
- heating and current drive
- comparison with experiment
|
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| SOL turbulence |
- simulated SOL turbulence
- experimental Langmuir probe data
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