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Article Dans Une Revue Nuclear Fusion Année : 2009

Validating a quasi-linear transport model versus nonlinear simulations

A. Casati
  • Fonction : Auteur
C. Bourdelle
X. Garbet
Frédéric Imbeaux
J. Candy
  • Fonction : Auteur
F. Clairet
  • Fonction : Auteur
Guilhem Dif-Pradalier
G. Falchetto
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T. Gerbaud
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Virginie Grandgirard
Özgür D. Gürcan
Pascale Hennequin
J. Kinsey
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M. Ottaviani
  • Fonction : Auteur
R. Sabot
  • Fonction : Auteur
Y. Sarazin
Laure Vermare
R. E. Waltz
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

In order to gain reliable predictions on turbulent fluxes in tokamak plasmas, physics based transport models are required. Nonlinear gyrokinetic electromagnetic simulations for all species are still too costly in terms of computing time. On the other hand, interestingly, the quasi-linear approximation seems to retain the relevant physics for fairly reproducing both experimental results and nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations. Quasi-linear fluxes are made of two parts: (1) the quasi-linear response of the transported quantities and (2) the saturated fluctuating electrostatic potential. The first one is shown to follow well nonlinear numerical predictions; the second one is based on both nonlinear simulations and turbulence measurements. The resulting quasi-linear fluxes computed by QuaLiKiz (Bourdelle et al 2007 Phys. Plasmas 14 112501) are shown to agree with the nonlinear predictions when varying various dimensionless parameters, such as the temperature gradients, the ion to electron temperature ratio, the dimensionless collisionality, the effective charge and ranging from ion temperature gradient to trapped electron modes turbulence.

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hal-01551020 , version 1 (29-06-2017)

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A. Casati, C. Bourdelle, X. Garbet, Frédéric Imbeaux, J. Candy, et al.. Validating a quasi-linear transport model versus nonlinear simulations. Nuclear Fusion, 2009, 49, pp.085012. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/49/8/085012⟩. ⟨hal-01551020⟩
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