ICRF-code benchmark activity in the framework of the European task-force on integrated Tokamak Modelling

• The grand aim of the Integrated Tokamak Modelling (ITM) task-force is to provide a flexible, modular and reliable plasma simulator in view of planning and analyzing ITER discharges. Since radio-frequency (rf) heating in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) is foreseen as one of the main additional heating systems in ITER, physics modules that simulate ICRF wave propagation and absorption are necessary for the ITM project. Here, we report on the status of the benchmark activity of ICRF codes, already imported in ITM environment platform. We consider various scenarios for ITER, limiting the comparisons to wave propagation and absorption in Maxwellian plasmas.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Fusion, plasma och rymdfysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

full-wave solver

ICRF

ITM

Electric discharges

Magnetoplasma

Wave propagation

Additional heating

Full waves

Ion cyclotron range of frequency

Maxwellian plasmas

Plasma simulators

Radio frequencies

Tokamak devices

Publication and Content Type

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kon (subject category)