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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0087104
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- European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme [101052200-EUROfusion]
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This study reports on the extension of the JOREK code to 3D geometries and the first stellarator simulations carried out with it. The results demonstrate that stable full MHD equilibria are preserved in the reduced model, and the linear growth rates measured in JOREK are in reasonable agreement with the growth rates from the CASTOR3D linear MHD code.
Although the basic concept of a stellarator was known since the early days of fusion research, advances in computational technology have enabled the modeling of increasingly complicated devices, leading up to the construction of Wendelstein 7-X, which has recently shown promising results. This recent success has revived interest in the nonlinear 3D MHD modeling of stellarators in order to better understand their performance and operational limits. This study reports on the extension of the JOREK code to 3D geometries and on the first stellarator simulations carried out with it. The first simple simulations shown here address the classic Wendelstein 7-A stellarator using a reduced MHD model previously derived by us. The results demonstrate that stable full MHD equilibria are preserved in the reduced model: the flux surfaces do not move throughout the simulation and closely match the flux surfaces of the full MHD equilibrium. Furthermore, both tearing and ballooning modes were simulated, and the linear growth rates measured in JOREK are in reasonable agreement with the growth rates from the CASTOR3D linear MHD code. (C) 2022 Author(s).
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