(TH/P8-28) Transport in ITER-like Plasmas in Neoclassical, Fluid and Gyrokinetic Descriptions
H. Nordman1),
J. Candy2),
T. Fülöp1),
E. Belli2)
1) Department of Radio and Space Science, Göteborg, Sweden
2) General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract. Turbulent and neoclassical transport in ITER-like plasmas is
studied using a hierarchy of modelling tools. Transport from
ITG/TEM instability is studied with nonlinear gyrokinetic
simulations (using GYRO) and compared with results from an
electrostatic fluid model. GYRO simulations
include full kinetic ion (D,T,4He,C) and electron dynamics.
Key issues ignored in standard transport modelling, such as
D-T flow separation, as well as electromagnetic effects on
electron transport, are considered and consistency of the
ASTRA transport simulations is examined. Neoclassical transport
of particles and energy is also computed using a new
first-principles kinetic code with an advanced collision
operator. Simulations are based on ITER-like profiles
derived from ASTRA modelling. For the ASTRA
profiles used in the simulations, the fluid and gyrokinetic
simulations are in qualitative agreement, with inward particle
flux is observed for all species. Importantly, we find that
the ion and electron energy fluxes are significantly larger
in the core than the values obtained by ASTRA in steady
state. This implies that the ASTRA profiles may be
overpredicting the ion temperature and thus the fusion power.
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