Application of the parareal algorithm to simulations of ELMs in ITER plasma

Samaddar, Debasmita; Coster, D. P.; Bonnin, X.; Berry, Lee A.; Elwasif, Wael R.; Batchelor, Donald B.

doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2018.08.007

Title: Application of the parareal algorithm to simulations of ELMs in ITER plasma

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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 to the standard parareal correction is implemented. The size of the time chunks also have an impact on the performance and needs to be optimized. in conclusion, a computational gain of 7.8 is obtained with 48 processors to illustrate that the parareal algorithm can be successfully applied to ELM plasma.

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Samaddar, Debasmita ^[1];

^[2];

^[3]; Berry, Lee A. ^[4];

^[4]; Batchelor, Donald B. ^[4]

Culham Science Centre, Oxon (United Kingdom)
Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Garching (Germany)
ITER Organization, St. Paul Lez Durance (France)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Publication Date:: 2018-09-26

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1504000

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Computer Physics Communications

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 235; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0010-4655

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; Time parallelization; Parareal algorithm; Scrape off layer (SOL); SOLPS; Magnetically confined plasmas; Edge localized modes or ELMs; ITER; Tokamak

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                    Samaddar, Debasmita, Coster, D. P., Bonnin, X., Berry, Lee A., Elwasif, Wael R., and Batchelor, Donald B. Application of the parareal algorithm to simulations of ELMs in ITER plasma.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Samaddar, Debasmita, Coster, D. P., Bonnin, X., Berry, Lee A., Elwasif, Wael R., & Batchelor, Donald B. Application of the parareal algorithm to simulations of ELMs in ITER plasma.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2018.08.007

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                    Samaddar, Debasmita, Coster, D. P., Bonnin, X., Berry, Lee A., Elwasif, Wael R., and Batchelor, Donald B. Wed .  
"Application of the parareal algorithm to simulations of ELMs in ITER plasma".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2018.08.007.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1504000.

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@article{osti_1504000,

  title        = {Application of the parareal algorithm to simulations of ELMs in ITER plasma},

  author       = {Samaddar, Debasmita and Coster, D. P. and Bonnin, X. and Berry, Lee A. and Elwasif, Wael R. and Batchelor, Donald B.},

  abstractNote = {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 to the standard parareal correction is implemented. The size of the time chunks also have an impact on the performance and needs to be optimized. in conclusion, a computational gain of 7.8 is obtained with 48 processors to illustrate that the parareal algorithm can be successfully applied to ELM plasma.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.cpc.2018.08.007},

  journal      = {Computer Physics Communications},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 235,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {9}

}

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