XGC-A01: New simulation for DIII-D equilibrium 132014.03023 is submitted on Franklin

This case is modified from the case XGC-A00 with the following changes:

  1. MMM95 model through the FMCFM interface is used for anomalous transport computations in the core region;
  2. Computational domain is extended to the magnetic axis;
  3. Realistic initial conditions for temperatures and plasma densities are used;
  4. New radiation model is included

input-xgc-a01


New update with respect to experimental data from DIII-D

Rich Groebner has provided information about total heating powers in the DIII-D discharges that are considered from modeling with the XGC-0 code. According to Rich:

Neutral beam injection was the only auxiliary heating on these discharges... I have supplied powers averaged over the entire time of interest. 
 
132014   8.12 MW 
132016   7.35 MW 
132017   8.49 MW 
132018   7.09 MW

Rich has also provided the plasma density and temperature profiles.


XGC-A00: Short simulation with simple anomalous transport to test new equilibrium from Rich Groebner

This simulation that is based on input file used in the study of the neoclassical scaling of the H-mode pedestal width. The initial conditions for the plasma temperatures and density is set by analytical expressions with the plasma density of 10^{19} m^{-3} at the inner boundary of the computation domain. The computation domain is set from 0.85 to 1.05 of the normalized poloidal flux. Simple model for the anomalous transport is used (fm_use=0).