New smoothing procedure for radial electric field is implemented
New procedure for smoothing of radial electric field profile is implemented in the fmcfm_call routine. Different levels of smoothing is applied in the plasma core and in the plasma edge. The radial electric field profile in the plasma edge is smoothed fm_nsmooth times together other plasma profiles such as electron and ion temperatures and plasma density profiles. The radial electric field in the plasma core is smoothed fm_nsmooth_er times. The new smoothed profiles are merge together using the following formula:
and used in the computation of the flow shear. Here, is the coefficient that describes sharpness of the transition between two smoothed profiles The fm_smooth_er_coef is used to set this coefficient in the XGC-0 code through the namelist. The parameter controls the location of the transition. The fm_smooth_er_rhob variable is used to set this parameter in the code. The default values for these parameters are: and .
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