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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 3, S1063 (2008)

Regular Articles


Development of a Hierarchy-Integrated Simulation Code for Toroidal Helical Plasmas, TASK3D
Masahiko SATO, Shinichiro TODA, Yuji NAKAMURA1), Kiyomasa WATANABE, Atsushi FUKUYAMA2), Sadayoshi MURAKAMI2), Masayuki YOKOYAMA, Hisamichi FUNABA, Hiroshi YAMADA and Noriyoshi NAKAJIMA
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan
1)
Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
2)
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
(Received 21 November 2007 / Accepted 18 March 2008 / Published 1 August 2008)

Abstract

The present status of the development of a hierarchy-integrated simulation code for toroidal helical plasmas, TASK3D, is reported. TASK3D is developed by extending the integrated modeling code for tokamak plasmas, Transport Analyzing System for tokamaK (TASK) [A. Fukuyama et al., Proc. of 20th IAEA Fusion Energy Conf. (Villamoura, Portugal, 2004) IAEA-CSP-25/CD/TH/P2-3]. In order to extend TASK to be applicable for threedimensional configurations, a new module for the radial electric field in general toroidal configurations has been developed and implemented. As a first test for this implementation, numerical simulations for the time evolution of temperature and electric field are conducted on the basis of an LHD experimental result, by a successful combination of a diffusive transport module and the implemented electric field module.


Keywords

integrated simulation, helical plasma, radial electric field

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.3.S1063


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This paper may be cited as follows:

Masahiko SATO, Shinichiro TODA, Yuji NAKAMURA, Kiyomasa WATANABE, Atsushi FUKUYAMA, Sadayoshi MURAKAMI, Masayuki YOKOYAMA, Hisamichi FUNABA, Hiroshi YAMADA and Noriyoshi NAKAJIMA, Plasma Fusion Res. 3, S1063 (2008).