Nuclear Fusion (Jan 2023)
Modelling performed for predictions of fusion power in JET DTE2: overview and lessons learnt
- J. Garcia,
- F.J. Casson,
- L. Frassinetti,
- D. Gallart,
- L. Garzotti,
- H.-T. Kim,
- M. Nocente,
- S. Saarelma,
- F. Auriemma,
- J. Ferreira,
- S. Gabriellini,
- A. Ho,
- P. Huynh,
- K.K. Kirov,
- E. Lerche,
- M.J. Mantsinen,
- V.K. Zotta,
- Z. Stancar,
- D.M.A. Taylor,
- D. Van Eester,
- C.D. Challis,
- JET Contributors
Affiliations
- J. Garcia
- ORCiD
- CEA, IRFM , F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
- F.J. Casson
- ORCiD
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon , Oxon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- L. Frassinetti
- ORCiD
- Division of Fusion Plasma Physics, KTH , Stockholm, Sweden
- D. Gallart
- ORCiD
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) , Barcelona, Spain
- L. Garzotti
- ORCiD
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon , Oxon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- H.-T. Kim
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon , Oxon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- M. Nocente
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- Dipartimento di Fisica ‘G. Occhialini’, Università di Milano-Bicocca , Milano, Italy
- S. Saarelma
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon , Oxon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- F. Auriemma
- ORCiD
- Consorzio RFX, ISTP-CNR , Padova, Italy
- J. Ferreira
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- Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa , Lisboa, Portugal
- S. Gabriellini
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- Sapienza University of Rome , Rome, Italy
- A. Ho
- ORCiD
- DIFFER—Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research , De Zaale 20, 5612 AJ Eindhoven, Netherlands
- P. Huynh
- CEA, IRFM , F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
- K.K. Kirov
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon , Oxon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- E. Lerche
- Laboratory for Plasma Physics LPP-ERM/KMS , B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
- M.J. Mantsinen
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) , Barcelona, Spain; ICREA , Barcelona, Spain
- V.K. Zotta
- ORCiD
- Sapienza University of Rome , Rome, Italy
- Z. Stancar
- ORCiD
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon , Oxon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- D.M.A. Taylor
- ORCiD
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon , Oxon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- D. Van Eester
- ORCiD
- Laboratory for Plasma Physics LPP-ERM/KMS , B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
- C.D. Challis
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon , Oxon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- JET Contributors
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/acedc0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 63,
no. 11
p. 112003
Abstract
For more than a decade, an unprecedented predict-first activity has been carried in order to predict the fusion power and provide guidance to the second Deuterium–Tritium (D–T) campaign performed at JET in 2021 (DTE2). Such an activity has provided a framework for a broad model validation and development towards the D–T operation. It is shown that it is necessary to go beyond projections using scaling laws in order to obtain detailed physics based predictions. Furthermore, mixing different modelling complexity and promoting an extended interplay between modelling and experiment are essential towards reliable predictions of D–T plasmas. The fusion power obtained in this predict-first activity is in broad agreement with the one finally measured in DTE2. Implications for the prediction of fusion power in future devices, such as ITER, are discussed.
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