Direct Microstability Optimization of Stellarator Devices
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| author | Jorge, R. Dorland, W. Kim, P. Landreman, M. Mandell, N. R. Merlo, G. Qian, T. |
| author_facet | Jorge, R. Dorland, W. Kim, P. Landreman, M. Mandell, N. R. Merlo, G. Qian, T. |
| contents | Turbulent transport is regarded as one of the key issues in magnetic confinement nuclear fusion, both for tokamaks in stellarators. In this work, we show that a significant decrease in a microstability-based proxy, as opposed to a geometric one, for the turbulent heat flux, namely the quasilinear heat flux, can be obtained in an efficient manner by coupling stellarator optimization with linear gyrokinetic simulations. This is accomplished by computing the quasi-linear heat flux at each step of the optimization process, as well as the deviation from quasisymmetry, and minimizing their sum, leading to a balance between neoclassical and turbulent transport proxy. |
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| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | Direct Microstability Optimization of Stellarator Devices Jorge, R. Dorland, W. Kim, P. Landreman, M. Mandell, N. R. Merlo, G. Qian, T. Plasma Physics Turbulent transport is regarded as one of the key issues in magnetic confinement nuclear fusion, both for tokamaks in stellarators. In this work, we show that a significant decrease in a microstability-based proxy, as opposed to a geometric one, for the turbulent heat flux, namely the quasilinear heat flux, can be obtained in an efficient manner by coupling stellarator optimization with linear gyrokinetic simulations. This is accomplished by computing the quasi-linear heat flux at each step of the optimization process, as well as the deviation from quasisymmetry, and minimizing their sum, leading to a balance between neoclassical and turbulent transport proxy. |
| title | Direct Microstability Optimization of Stellarator Devices |
| topic | Plasma Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09356 |