Spatial adaptivity in SOLEDGE3X‐HDG for edge plasma simulations in versatile magnetic and reactor geometries
Résumé
With the ultimate goal to predict plasmas heat and particle fluxes in ITER opera-
tion, more efforts are required to deal with realistic magnetic configurations and
tokamak geometries. In an attempt to achieve this goal, we propose an adaptive
mesh refinement method added to a fluid solver based on a high-order hybrid
discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method. Based on unstructured meshes, this
magnetic equilibrium free numerical scheme has shown promising and encour-
aging features to solve 2D/3D transport reduced Braginski fluid equations. To
improve its numerical efficiency, a mesh refinement based on h-adpativity is
investigated. We describe here an adaptive refinement strategy on a reduced
edge particle transport model based on electron density and parallel momentum.
This strategy is illustrated in realistic tokamak wall geometry. Computations
performed show potential gains in the required number of degrees of freedom
against benchmark computations with uniform meshes, along with the poten-
tial to give an automated, goal-oriented, mesh generation technique for edge
transport simulations in 2D
Domaines
Physique [physics]
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