Helen Brooks Stephen Dixon Andrew Davis
We present new two applications, AURORA and Achlys, developed using the MOOSE framework for finite element analysis, intended to facilitate engineering analysis for fusion reactors. Respectively these couple neutronics and tritium transport to native MOOSE physics modules including heat conduction and tensor mechanics. We outline steps taken to pe…
S.J.P.PamelaG.T.A.HuijsmansM.Hoelzl
As the international tokamak ITER is being built, non-linear MHD simulations are playing an essential role in active research, understanding, and prediction of tokamak plasmas for the realisation of a fusion power plant. The development of MHD codes like JOREK is a key aspect of this research effort, and provides invaluable insight into the plasma …
PreprintGerald Pintsuk Giaocomo Aiello Sergei L. Dudarev Michael Gorley Jean Henry Marianne Richou Michael Rieth D. Terentyev Rafael Vila
The EUROfusion materials research program for DEMO in-vessel components aligns with the European Fusion Roadmap and comprises the characterization and qualification of the in-vessel baseline materials EUROFER97, CuCrZr and tungsten, advanced structural and high heat flux materials developed for risk mitigation, as well as optical and dielectric fun…
Preprint PublishedL. Reali M. Boleininger M. R. Gilbert S. L. Dudarev
Using the notion of eigenstrain produced by the defects formed in a material exposed to high energy neutron irradiation, we develop a method for computing macroscopic elastic stress and strain arising in components of a fusion power plant during operation. In a microstructurally isotropic material, the primary cause of macroscopic elastic stress an…
Preprint PublishedD. Samaddar D.P. Coster X. Bonnin L.A. Berry W.R. Elwasif D.B. Batchelor
This paper explores the application of the parareal algorithm to simulations of ELMs in ITER plasma. The primary focus of this research is identifying the parameters that lead to optimum performance. Since the plasma dynamics vary extremely fast during an ELM cycle, a straightforward application of the algorithm is not possible and a modification t…
Preprint PublishedS. H. Ward R. Akers A. Jacobsen P. Ollus S. D. Pinches E. Tholerus R. G. L. Vann M. A. Van Zeeland
A novel high-performance computing algorithm, developed in response to the next generation of computational challenges associated with burning plasma regimes in ITER-scale tokamak devices, has been tested and is described herein. LOCUST-GPU 2 The Lorentz-Orbit Code for Use in Stellarators and Tokamaks (LOCUST) is designed for computationally scal…
Preprint PublishedAndrew Davis Aleksander Dubas Rubin Otin
The field of fusion energy is about to enter the ITER era, for the first time we will have access to a device capable of producing 500 MW of fusion power, with plasmas lasting more than 300 seconds and with core tem- perature…
Preprint PublishedJ. T. Parker P. A. Hill D. Dickinson B. D. Dudson
Tridiagonal matrix inversion is an important operation with many applications. It arises frequently in solving discretized one-dimensional elliptic partial differential equations, and forms the basis for many algorithms for block tridiagonal matrix inversion for discretized PDEs in higher-dimensions. In such systems, this operation is often the …
Preprint PurchaseVignesh Gopakumar D. Samaddar
We propose a method for data-driven modelling of the temporal evolution of the plasma and neutral characteristics at the edge of a Tokamak using neural networks. Our method proposes a novel fully convolutional network that is capable of predicting the time evolution of the physics parameters along the two-dimensional representation of the poloid…
Preprint PublishedAndrew Lahiff Shaun de Witt Miguel Caballer Giuseppe La Roca Stanislas Pamela David Coster
Access to both High Throughput Computing (HTC) and High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities is vitally important to the fusion community, not only for plasma modelling but also for advanced engineering and design, materials research, rendering, uncertainty quantification and advanced data analytics for engineering operations. The computing re…
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