The deliverable D5.1 presents:
Fusion for Energy
Results
Semester reports are produced in a multimedia format to benefit from the full oral explanations of the work package leaders.
News
The workshop will be held at the CLORA facilities in Brussels (http://clora.eu) o
In a joint effort, the two centres of excellence EoCoE and PoP have once again hold a hands-on
This was the 4th biannual face-to-face meeting of the Energy oriented Centre of Excellence in computing applications EoCoE. After previous event
Events
05
October
2015
Kick-off Meeting
CEA Saclay, France
04
July
2016
Poznan, 04th-06th July 2016 Face to Face Bi-annual EoCoE project meeting
This is the bi-annual face to face meeting of the Energy oriented Centre of Excellence in computing applications EoCoE (said "Echo").
PSNC: Jana Pawla II 10, Poznan (Poland)
30
November
2016
Rome, 30th November - 02nd December 2016 Face to Face Bi-annual EoCoE project meeting
This is the bi-annual face to face meeting of the Energy oriented Centre of Excellence in computing applications EoCoE (said "Echo").
ENEA’s Rome Headquarters
24
April
2017
Evaluation Workshop
In a joint effort, the two centres of excellence EoCoE and PoP will once again hold a hands-on
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
09
May
2017
Jülich Face to Face Meeting
- Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Jülich, Germany
The gas in fusion reactors is in the 4th state of matter, the plasma state, where electrons are no longer bound to nuclei. In tokamaks like ITER, the international facility presently under construction at Cadarache (France), the plasma is confined by magnetic fields of a few Tesla. From the plasma physics point of view, three critical issues are identified on the route towards a Fusion based reactor: (i) ensuring the lifetime of the divertor – which collects particle and heat out fluxes, (ii) improving the quality of the energy confinement within the magnetic configuration, and (iii) preserving the purity of the fuel with respect to impurities and helium ashes. The long term objectives target these three major problems by first principle simulations, which provide support to experiments in this quest:
- To predict and optimise confinement properties of tokamak plasmas through 5D gyrokinetic simulations of core turbulent and collisional transport in realistic geometries. A broad spectrum of scales is needed for a self-consistent treatment of the problem;
- To predict the power threshold for the Low to High confinement regime via 3D fluid simulations of turbulent transport across the last closed magnetic flux surface, which separates the confined and unconfined regions of tokamak plasmas. This includes divertor physics and plasma-wall interactions;
- To model edge quasi-periodic relaxation events called "ELMs" by means of 3D Magneto Hydro Dynamics (MHD) simulations, in view of predicting their impact on the divertor plates, of understanding the underlying physics and developing strategies for their mitigation;
- To predict the sources & transport of neutrals by means of 1D to 3D fluid simulations coupled to a Monte-Carlo code.
