Numerical methods for stellarator simulations in BOUT++

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Autores principales: Bold, David, Shanahan, Brendan
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author Bold, David
Shanahan, Brendan
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Shanahan, Brendan
contents Modeling the Scape-off layer (SOL) of stellarator fusion devices is challenging due to the complicated magnetic topology, requiring numerical tools to solve transport equations for realistic geometries. Previously the flux coordinate independent (FCI) method has been successfully applied to model the SOL in simplified geometries. The current work presents some of the recent improvements for the BOUT++ modeling implemented to simulate the SOL in realistic geometries with the example of Wendelstein 7-X. The changes include improvements for the grid generation tool, the physics model as well as the BOUT++ library itself. A short outlook is given on current modeling work using the new features.
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spellingShingle Numerical methods for stellarator simulations in BOUT++
Bold, David
Shanahan, Brendan
Plasma Physics
Computational Physics
Modeling the Scape-off layer (SOL) of stellarator fusion devices is challenging due to the complicated magnetic topology, requiring numerical tools to solve transport equations for realistic geometries. Previously the flux coordinate independent (FCI) method has been successfully applied to model the SOL in simplified geometries. The current work presents some of the recent improvements for the BOUT++ modeling implemented to simulate the SOL in realistic geometries with the example of Wendelstein 7-X. The changes include improvements for the grid generation tool, the physics model as well as the BOUT++ library itself. A short outlook is given on current modeling work using the new features.
title Numerical methods for stellarator simulations in BOUT++
topic Plasma Physics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28221