Confinement
of energetic particles (EP) is a critical issue for burning plasmas since
ignition in ITER relies on self-heating by
energetic fusion products (a-particles). SciDAC ISEP will
develop predictive capability for EP effects on ITER performance by improving
physics understanding of EP confinement and EP interactions with burning
thermal plasmas through exascale simulations. ISEP center will develop a
multiscale and multi-physics ISEP framework for the predictive EP capability
and deliver an EP module incorporating both first-principles simulations and
high fidelity reduced transport models for future whole device modeling (WDM)
project.
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Verification and
validation of integrated simulation of energetic particles in fusion plasmas, S. Taimourzadeh et al, Nuclear Fusion 59, 066006 (2019). |
GTC weak scaling, Summit acceptance test, W. Joubert |
