Progress of advanced transport modeling of toroidal plasmas

Abstract

Integrated modeling is required for predicting the behavior of burning plasma in fusion devices. Core plasma transport modeling is a key component which describes the time evolution of plasma profile. Between the simple 1D diffusive transport model and the large-scale microscopic turbulent transport simulation, advanced transport modeling which requires decent computational resource is desired. Two approaches, 1D fluid transport modeling and 3D kinetic transport modeling, are discussed.

Keywords:

• Plasma
• transport
• modeling

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