Final Report for "Extending BOUT++ for Solution of Edge Plasma Equations for Use in Whole Device Simulation of Tokamaks"

Technical Report · Thu Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1027635· OSTI ID:1027635

Hakim, Ammar H

In this Phase I project we have extended the BOUT++ code to solve edge fluid equations. We added a simple neutral fluid model, created a mesh generator as well as collected a set of difficult test problems for benchmarking edge codes. The work in this project should be useful as a starting point to build a complete set of edge fluid equations in BOUT++ that would enhance its ability to not only perform edge turbulence calculations, but also allow the coupled transport-turbulence equations evolved in an efficient manner.

• Research Organization: Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: SC0004435
• OSTI ID: 1027635
• Report Number(s): Final Report; 7219; TRN: US201209%%251
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
PLASMA
SIMULATION
TURBULENCE
COMPUTER CODES
PROGRAMMING
Scrap-off-layer
fluid modeling
BOUT++
fusion
tokamaks