Towards the integrated analysis of tokamak plasmaequilibria: PLEQUE
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angličtina
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Towards the integrated analysis of tokamak plasmaequilibria: PLEQUE
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Towards the integrated analysis of tokamak plasma equilibria: PLEQUEL. Kripner1,2, M. Tomeš1,2, J. Urban1, O. Grover1,3, O. Ficker1,3, E. Macúšová1, M. Peterka1,2,J. Krbec1,3, J. Čeřovský1,3, D. Fridrich11Institute of Plasma Physics of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic2Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic3Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, CTU in Prague, Prague,Czech RepublicTheequilibriumsolutionoftheGrad-Shafranovequationintheformofthe2DfunctionofpsiandoftheF(ψ)=RBtorfunctionandthepressurep(ψ)profileoffersfundamentalinformationaboutthetokamakplasmastate.Thecombinationofthesefunctionsprovidescomplexinformationabouttheplasmasuchasthetopology,plasmacurrents,andthemagneticfield.Plasmaequilibriumisusedforbothdataanalysisandasoneoftheinputsofcomputersimulations.KnownplasmaequilibriumplaysakeyroleinadesignofnewmachineslikeCOMPASS-UinPrague.Asaconsequence,equilibriumanalysistoolsarepartofthemostofsimulationcodesandtheyareincludedamongtheequipmentofmanytokamakplasmascientists.Nevertheless,aunifiedanduniversalpackageforsimpleandfastmanipulationofequilibriaisstillmissing.Inthiscontribution,wepresentanewopen-sourcepythonpackagePLEQUE(PLasmaEQUilibriumEnjoyment)[1]whichaimstosolvethisissue.Wefocusonfouraspectsofthepackage.Firstly,weintroducemethodsusedfortheinputanalysiswhichallowobtainingself-consistentinformation(e.g.x-point,magneticaxis,strike-points,orplasmaboundary).Secondly,wedemonstrateitspossibilitytobeintegratedwithothercodesviatheIMAS(ITERIntegratedModelling&AnalysisSuite)formatorstandardequilibriumg-eqdskformat.Theabilitytoreadsomerealtokamakmachineequilibriaisdemonstratedaswell.Thirdly,weshowthesimplehigh-levelinterfacetoobtaintherequesteddataassimplyandeasilyaspossible.Theinterfaceallowsanelegantabilitytoworkwithvarioustokamakcoordinatesystemandtomapprofilesofvariousquantitiesofpsitotheplasmaequilibrium.Finally,applicationssuchasfieldlinetracingwillbedemonstratedand used for magnetic field reconstruction in the presence of resonant magnetic perturbations.[1] https://github.com/kripnerl/pleque
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Classification
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O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10305 - Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů