Speaker
Maurizio Giacomin
(EPFL - EPF Lausanne)
Description
Understanding the plasma dynamics in the scrape-off layer (SOL) is of fundamental importance on the way to fusion energy. For example, the SOL sets the boundary conditions for the tokamak core and it regulates the energy flux to the tokamak wall. With the goal of improving our understanding of the SOL, the GBS code was developed during the past years. GBS simulates the SOL turbulence by solving the two-fluid drift-reduced Braginskii equations. In this work, we describe recent simulations that consider plasma turbulence in a X-point diverted geometry.
Author
Maurizio Giacomin
(EPFL - EPF Lausanne)
Co-authors
Prof.
Paolo Ricci
(EPFL, SPC)
Carrie Beadle
(EPFL, SPC)
André Calado Coroado
(EPFL, SPC)
Paola Paruta
(EPFL, SPC)
