Journal
NUCLEAR FUSION
Volume 61, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/ac243a
Keywords
tokamak transport; quasi-linear model; turbulence; gyrokinetic
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0019736, DE-SC0018990, DE-FG02-95ER54309, DE-FC02-06ER54873, DE-FC02-04ER54698]
- Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0018990, DE-FC02-06ER54873, DE-SC0019736] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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This paper verifies and calibrates a new quasi-linear transport model based on a large database of gyrokinetic turbulence simulations. The modification of a key parameter in the model is found to be necessary for better fitting temperature and density gradients. The new model shows significantly improved fit in electron and ion energy fluxes compared to previous saturation models, leading to revisions in related models.
The verification and calibration of a new quasi-linear transport model with a large database of gyrokinetic turbulence simulations is presented in this paper. In a previous paper (Staebler et al 2020 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 63 015013), a model for the saturated spectrum of electric potential fluctuations was developed based on the properties of the non-linear 3D spectrum. In this paper, a modification to the overall multiplicative factor in this model is found to be necessary to improve the fit to scans of the temperature and density gradients. The error in the fit of the quasi-linear fluxes of electron and ion energy fluxes is significantly better than for previous saturation models. The spectral shift model for the impact of equilibrium E x B velocity shear (Staebler et al 2013 Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 055003) and the zonal flow mixing model for electron-scale turbulence (Staebler et al 2016 Phys. Plasmas 23 062518) are both revised to be compatible with this new model. The models for the loss of bounce averaging and electron collisions in the TGLF reduced linear equations (Staebler et al 2005 Phys. Plasmas 12 102508) are also changed to improve the linear eigenmodes.
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