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Runaway electron fluid model extension in JOREK and ITER relevant benchmarks

Published:2024-08-01 Issue:8 Volume:31 Page:
ISSN:1070-664X
Container-title:Physics of Plasmas
language:en
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Author:

Bandaru V.¹²^ORCID,Hoelzl M.²^ORCID,Artola F. J.³^ORCID,Vallhagen O.⁴^ORCID,Lehnen M.³^ORCID,

Affiliation:

1. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati 1 , Assam 781039, India

2. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics 2 , 85748 Garching b. M., Germany

3. ITER Organization 3 , 13067 St. Paul Lez Durance, France

4. Chalmers University of Technology 4 , 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden

Abstract

We present details of recent extensions of the runaway electron (RE) fluid model implemented in the fusion magnetohydrodynamics code JOREK [M. Hoelzl et al., Nucl. Fusion 61, 065001 (2021)] to include the effects of partially ionized impurity species and deuterium neutrals. The model treats the interaction of runaway electrons with the background plasma via current-coupling. The code is separately benchmarked using ITER (https://www.iter.org/) relevant scenarios, with the GO [G. Papp et al., Nucl. Fusion 53, 123017 (2013)] code in relation to runaway electron beam formation and with the DINA [Khayrutdinov and Lukash, J. Comp. Phys. 109(2), 193–201 (1993)] code in relation to simultaneous runaway beam formation and vertical plasma motion. Benchmark results show a decent agreement in both the cases, which are also discussed.

Funder

ITER Organisation

European Commission

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Link

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pop/article-pdf/doi/10.1063/5.0213962/20093805/082503_1_5.0213962.pdf

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