Alcator C-Mod predictive modeling

Alexei Pankin; Glenn Bateman; Arnold Kritz; Martin Greenwald; Joseph Snipes; Thomas Fredian

doi:10.1063/1.1399057

Alcator C-Mod predictive modeling

Alexei Pankin
, Glenn Bateman
, Arnold Kritz
, Martin Greenwald
, Joseph Snipes
, Thomas Fredian

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Predictive simulations for the Alcator C-mod tokamak [I. Hutchinson et al., Phys. Plasmas 1, 1511 (1994)] are carried out using the BALDUR integrated modeling code [C. E. Singer et al., Comput. Phys. Commun. 49, 275 (1988)]. The results are obtained for temperature and density profiles using the Multi-Mode transport model [G. Bateman et al., Phys. Plasmas 5, 1793 (1998)] as well as the mixed-Bohm/gyro-Bohm transport model [M. Erba et al., Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 39, 261 (1997)]. The simulated discharges are characterized by very high plasma density in both low and high modes of confinement. The predicted profiles for each of the transport models match the experimental data about equally well in spite of the fact that the two models have different dimensionless scalings. Average relative rms deviations are less than 8% for the electron density profiles and 16% for the electron and ion temperature profiles.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	4403-4413
Number of pages	11
Journal	Physics of Plasmas
Volume	8
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1399057
State	Published - Oct 2001
Externally published	Yes

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