The EUROfusion Code Camp 2016 was held at the Institute of Plasma Physics

 

The Code Camp is a gathering of code developers from 25 European fusion laboratories. In Europe, hundreds of code developers have been working for several years on a large variety of mathematical models and numerical codes to interpret present tokamak plasma experiments predict the behavior of the future fusion reactor plasmas. In order to coordinate this effort and provide a validated simulation platform for ITER exploitation, EFDA established in 2004 an Integrated Tokamak Modelling Task Force (ITM-TF), which is now replaced by the Code Development for Integrated Modelling Project, under EUROfusion. The challenge is to bring all the codes modelling specific physical phenomena occurring in a tokamak and adapted to various regions of the plasma, together via a standard interface that besides enables the codes written in different languages to talk to each other.

 

"Developers all over Europe are in close and constant contact," explains Gloria Falchetto, the Project leader. "It is important, however, that they meet face-to-face few times every year, with the support from IT experts on the infrastructure in order to develop the integrated simulations."

 

More than 60 different codes, based on different mathematical models and addressing different aspects of plasma simulation and tokamak technology, have been integrated over the years. Among those, the European Transport Simulator, ETS, has been released this year and implemented at JET for validation and analysis of the JET campaigns.

 

More than 60 different codes, based on different mathematical models and addressing different aspects of plasma simulation and tokamak technology, have been integrated over the years. Among those, the European Transport Simulator, ETS, has been released this year and implemented at JET for validation and analysis of the JET campaigns.

 

Seminar on Edge Plasma Modelling, given by David P. Coster; a leading expert in this field from IPP Garching