Published May 20, 2021
| Version v1
Journal article
The JOREK non-linear extended MHD code and applications to large-scale instabilities and their control in magnetically confined fusion plasmas
Creators
- Hoelzl, Matthias
- Huijsmans, Guido
- Pamela, Stanislas
- Bécoulet, Marina
- Nardon, Eric
- Artola, Francisco Javier
- Nkonga, Boniface
- Atanasiu, Calin Vlad
- Bandaru, Vinodh
- Bhole, Ashish
- Bonfiglio, Daniele
- Cathey, Andres
- Czarny, Olivier
- Dvornova, Anastasia
- Fehér, Tamas
- Fil, Alexandre
- Franck, Emmanuel
- Futatani, Shimpei
- Gruca, Marta
- Guillard, Hervé
- Haverkort, Willem
- Holod, Ihor
- Hu, Di
- Kim, S.K.
- Korving, Sven Q.
- Kos, Leon
- Krebs, Isabel
- Kripner, Lukas
- Latu, Guillaume
- Liu, Franklin
- Merkel, Peter
- Meshcheriakov, Dmytro
- Mitterauer, Verena
- Mochalskyy, Serhiy
- Morales, Jorge
- Nies, Richard
- Nikulsin, Nikita
- Orain, François
- Pratt, Jane
- Ramasamy, Rohan
- Ramet, Pierre
- Reux, Cédric
- Särkimäki, Konsta
- Schwarz, N.
- Verma, Prabal Singh
- Smith F., Siobhan
- Sommariva, Cristian
- Strumberger, Erika
- van Vugt, Daan
- Verbeek, M.
- Westerhof, Egbert
- Wieschollek, Fabian
- Zielinski, Jeffery
Contributors
Others:
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma physics (IPP-MPG) ; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
- Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE)
- Control, Analysis and Simulations for TOkamak Research (CASTOR) ; Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (CRISAM) ; Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire Jean Alexandre Dieudonné (JAD) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)
- National Institute for Lasers, Plasma, and Radiation Physics - INFLPR (ROMANIA)
- Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, EURATOM-ENEA-CNR Association ; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR)
- FRAMATOME
- TOkamaks and NUmerical Simulations (TONUS) ; Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée (IRMA) ; Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Inria Nancy - Grand Est ; Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya [Barcelona] (UPC)
- Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion [Warsaw] (IPPLM)
- Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
- Beihang University (BUAA)
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering [Princeton] (MAE) ; Princeton University
- Eindhoven University of Technology [Eindhoven] (TU/e)
- University of Ljubljana
- Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research [Eindhoven] (DIFFER)
- Institute of Plasma Physics, Association EURATOM (IPP PRAGUE) ; Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (CAS)
- Department of Physics and Astronomy [Atlanta] ; Georgia State University ; University System of Georgia (USG)-University System of Georgia (USG)
- High-End Parallel Algorithms for Challenging Numerical Simulations (HiePACS) ; Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI) ; Université de Bordeaux (UB)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest ; Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)
- Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) ; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- University of Saskatchewan [Saskatoon] (U of S)
Description
JOREK is a massively parallel fully implicit non-linear extended magneto-hydrodynamic(MHD) code for realistic tokamak X-point plasmas. It has become a widely used versatile simulation code for studying large-scale plasma instabilities and their control and is continuously developed in an international community with strong involvements in the European fusion research programme and ITER organization. This article gives a comprehensive overview of the physics models implemented, numerical methods applied for solving the equations and physics studies performed with the code. A dedicated section highlights some of the verification work done for the code. A hierarchy of different physics models is available including a free boundary and resistive wall extension and hybridkinetic-fluid models. The code allows for flux-surface aligned iso-parametric finite element grids in single and double X-point plasmas which can be extended to the true physical walls and uses a robust fully implicit time stepping. Particular focus is laid on plasma edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) physics as well as disruption related phenomena. Among the key results obtained with JOREK regarding plasma edge and SOL, are deep insights into the dynamics of edge localized modes (ELMs), ELM cycles, and ELM control by resonant magnetic perturbations, pellet injection, as well as by vertical magnetic kicks. Also ELM free regimes, detachment physics, the generation and transport of impurities during an ELM, and electrostatic turbulence in the pedestal region are investigated. Regarding disruptions, the focus is on the dynamics of the thermal quench (TQ) and current quench triggered by massive gas injection and shattered pellet injection, runaway electron (RE) dynamics as well as the RE interaction with MHD modes, and vertical displacement events. Also the seeding and suppression of tearing modes (TMs), the dynamics of naturally occurring TQs triggered by locked modes, and radiative collapses are being studied.
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Identifiers
- URL
- https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03352509
- URN
- urn:oai:HAL:hal-03352509v1
Origin repository
- Origin repository
- UNICA