Center for Extended Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling

This research project will develop computer codes that will enable a realistic assessment of the mechanisms leading to disruptive and other stability limits in the present and next generation of fusion devices. With an improvement in the efficiency of codes and with the extension of the leading 3D nonlinear magneto-fluid models of hot, magnetized fusion plasmas, this research will pioneer new plasma simulations of unprecedented realism and resolution. These simulations will provide new insights into low frequency, long-wavelength non-linear dynamics in hot magnetized plasmas, some of the most critical and complex phenomena in plasma and fusion science. The underlying models will be validated through cross-code and experimental comparisons.

Institutions Involved

• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• SAIC
• University of Wisconsin, Madison
• New York University
• University of Colorado
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Utah State University
• General Atomics
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• University of Texas, Austin

Principal Investigator

Steve Jardin
PPPL
jardin@pppl.gov

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