Advanced numerical methods for plasma-edge simulations in tokamaks

Date: 11/11/2017

speaker: Giorgio Giorgiani (CEA)

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:27 Outline

00:01:05 Motivation: predictive numerical tools for the plasma-edge

00:02:42 Inversion of the vorticity operator in TOKAM3X

00:10:43 New schemes for plasma simulation based on non-aligned discretizations

00:17:06 Conclusions

00:17:51 Questions

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