The Plasma Microturbulence Project

The goal of this research is to develop computational tools that will advance the understanding of microturbulence and its role with regard to confinement of fusion plasmas. The development of tools in this project will revolutionize the interpretation of experimental confinement data and will be used to test theoretical ideas about electrostatic and electromagnetic turbulence. An objective of this research is to provide the experimental and theoretical communities with a common interface to complementary kernels for microturbulence and microstability analysis. By fulfilling the objective of enabling direct comparisons between theory and experiment, direct numerical simulation will lead to improvements in confinement theory and increased confidence in theoretical confinement predictions.

Institutions Involved

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• General Atomics
• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• University of Maryland
• University of Colorado
• University of California, Los Angelos

Principal Investigator

Bill Nevins
LLNL
nevins@llnl.gov

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