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- Title
Optimization of nonlinear turbulence in stellarators.
- Authors
Kim, P.; Buller, S.; Conlin, R.; Dorland, W.; Dudt, D.W.; Gaur, R.; Jorge, R.; Kolemen, E.; Landreman, M.; Mandell, N.R.; Panici, D.
- Abstract
We present new stellarator equilibria that have been optimized for reduced turbulent transport using nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations within the optimization loop. The optimization routine involves coupling the pseudo-spectral GPU-native gyrokinetic code GX with the stellarator equilibrium and optimization code DESC. Since using GX allows for fast nonlinear simulations, we directly optimize for reduced nonlinear heat fluxes. To handle the noisy heat flux traces returned by these simulations, we employ the simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) method that only uses two objective function evaluations for a simple estimate of the gradient. We show several examples that optimize for both reduced heat fluxes and good quasi-symmetry as a proxy for low neoclassical transport. Finally, we run full transport simulations using the T3D stellarator transport code to evaluate the changes in the macroscopic profiles.
- Subjects
HEAT flux; STELLARATORS; STOCHASTIC approximation; TURBULENCE; PLASMA confinement; PLASMA turbulence; TRAJECTORY optimization
- Publication
Journal of Plasma Physics, 2024, Vol 90, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0022-3778
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0022377824000369