Title
ComPat framework for multiscale simulations applied to fusion plasmas.
Abstract
Understanding the dependency between plasma turbulence and overall transport is essential in predicting the performance of fusion devices. This dependency is not fully understood because of the highly disparate spatio-temporal scales involved, which prohibits a fully-resolved turbulence simulation at transport scales. The Computer Patterns for High Performance Multiscale Computing (ComPat) project takes the component based approach for multiscale simulations to connect existing single-scale models into a workflow. In this paper, we present the ComPat’s approach in building a multiscale fusion application: it brings equilibrium, transport and turbulence models together, where the turbulence is described by a 3D gyrofluid code. Initial results and challenges encountered with such approach are also presented and discussed. One of the challenges is to ensure numerical stability, for which adaptive time step size and the search for quasi-steady state are implemented as possible solutions. Another challenge is to improve the overall performance of multiscale simulation, and that is addressed by increasing the level of parallelism to the workflow.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.cpc.2018.12.021
Computer Physics Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multiscale,Fusion,Component-based
Plasma turbulence,Mathematical optimization,Turbulence,Fusion,Adaptive stepsize,Computational science,Plasma,Workflow,Mathematics,Numerical stability
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
239
0010-4655
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Onnie Luk100.34
Olivier Hoenen242.86
Alberto Bottino3336.46
Bruce D. Scott401.01
D. Coster5184.77