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Title: Bringing global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations to the transport timescale using a multiscale approach

Abstract

The vast separation dividing the characteristic times of energy confinement and turbulence in the core of toroidal plasmas makes first-principles prediction on long timescales extremely challenging. Here in this work, we report the demonstration of a multiple-timescale method that enables coupling global gyrokinetic simulations with a transport solver to calculate the evolution of the self-consistent temperature profile. This method, which exhibits resiliency to the intrinsic fluctuations arising in turbulence simulations, holds potential for integrating nonlocal gyrokinetic turbulence simulations into predictive, whole-device models.

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ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [1];  [1];  [4];  [1]
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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching (Germany)
  3. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  4. Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching (Germany); Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1458659
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-734141
Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515; 886124; TRN: US1901494
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344; AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nuclear Fusion
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 58; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
Publisher:
IOP Science
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY

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Parker, Jeffrey B., LoDestro, Lynda L., Told, Daniel, Merlo, Gabriele, Ricketson, Lee F., Campos, Alejandro, Jenko, Frank, and Hittinger, Jeffrey A. F. Bringing global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations to the transport timescale using a multiscale approach. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/aab5c8.
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Parker, Jeffrey B., LoDestro, Lynda L., Told, Daniel, Merlo, Gabriele, Ricketson, Lee F., Campos, Alejandro, Jenko, Frank, & Hittinger, Jeffrey A. F. Bringing global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations to the transport timescale using a multiscale approach. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aab5c8
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Parker, Jeffrey B., LoDestro, Lynda L., Told, Daniel, Merlo, Gabriele, Ricketson, Lee F., Campos, Alejandro, Jenko, Frank, and Hittinger, Jeffrey A. F. Mon . "Bringing global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations to the transport timescale using a multiscale approach". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aab5c8. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1458659.
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@article{osti_1458659,
title = {Bringing global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations to the transport timescale using a multiscale approach},
author = {Parker, Jeffrey B. and LoDestro, Lynda L. and Told, Daniel and Merlo, Gabriele and Ricketson, Lee F. and Campos, Alejandro and Jenko, Frank and Hittinger, Jeffrey A. F.},
abstractNote = {The vast separation dividing the characteristic times of energy confinement and turbulence in the core of toroidal plasmas makes first-principles prediction on long timescales extremely challenging. Here in this work, we report the demonstration of a multiple-timescale method that enables coupling global gyrokinetic simulations with a transport solver to calculate the evolution of the self-consistent temperature profile. This method, which exhibits resiliency to the intrinsic fluctuations arising in turbulence simulations, holds potential for integrating nonlocal gyrokinetic turbulence simulations into predictive, whole-device models.},
doi = {10.1088/1741-4326/aab5c8},
journal = {Nuclear Fusion},
number = 5,
volume = 58,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: Results from Simulation 1. (a) The 3 MW input heat source V ′S. The red shaded region indicates the area where the heat source is applied. (b) Temperature profile. (c) Normalized temperature gradient R0/LT = −(R0/T)dT/dr. (d) Heat flow H = V ′q̂. Shown in (b), (c), andmore » (d) are the initial iterate (dashed curve), the mean over the final 20 out of 50 iterations (red curve labeled “solution”). Also shown in (b) and (d) are a few early iterations (numbered curves), and the standard deviation over the final 20 iterations (light blue shaded region). In (d), the black dots depict the integral of the source, with which the numerical solution agrees well. The initial iterate has a higher resolution than the other curves because it is taken directly from a GENE simulation rather than the Tango grid. This heat flow taken from GENE falls to zero at the outer edge because of the buffer zone in GENE. The larger R0/LT that develops toward the edge r/a ≈ 0.9 in Simulations 1 and 2 is an artifact of the buffer zone and does not have a direct effect (see the Supplemental Material for more details about the buffer zone).« less
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