The way towards thermonuclear fusion simulators

In parallel to the ITER project itself, many initiatives address complementary technological issues relevant to a fusion reactor, as well as many remaining scientific issues. One of the next decade’s scientific challenges consists of merging the scientific knowledge accumulated during the past 40 years into a reliable set of validated simulation tools, accessible and useful for ITER prediction and interpretation activity, as well as for the conceptual design of the future reactors. Obviously such simulators involve a high degree of “integration” in several respects: integration of multispace, multi-scale (time and space) physics, integration of physics and technology models, inter-discipline integration etc. This very distinctive feature, in the framework of a rather long term and world-wide activity, constrains strongly the choices to be made at all levels of developments. A European task force on integrated tokamak modelling has been activated with the long-term aim of prov...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: CPHYSICS
• Authors: A. Bécoulet, Per Strand, H. Wilson, M. Romanelli, Lars-Goran Eriksson
• Keywords: CPHYSICS 2007, ITER, Long Term, Simulation Tools