Neutral Beam Penetration and Photoemission

Scope and motivation

This code comparison exercise is intended to assess the sensitivity of predictions of hydrogen beam penetration and of beam emissions in relevant fusion plasma conditions to different modelling codes and uncertainties in atomic data. It was conceived in order to support the aims of the Neutral Beams CRP which will provide evaluated and recommended data for the principal atomic processes relevant to heating and diagnostic neutral beams in fusion plasmas.

The workshop should bring together neutral beam modellers that may use a variety of atomic models and data. Relevant processes include excitation and deexcitation of beam neutrals by electron and ion impact (including impact by impurity ions), ionization from the ground state or from relevant excited states by electron and ion impact, and charge transfer resolved with respect to the excitation state of the pre-collision neutral H and the post-collision impurity ion. The comparison exercise will help modellers to identify possible errors in the atomic data and to identify important sensitivities of the simulations of beam penetration and beam-based emissions to uncertainties in the atomic data.

Workshop

A Workshop will be held in Debrecen, Hungary from 26 – 28 August 2019 to compare the results of this exercise. Remote participation will be possible, but researchers are encouraged to attend in person if at all possible.

Important Dates

by 20 August 2019Upload test results and code description
26 – 28 August 2019Code comparison workshop
20 November 2019Completion of comparison article

Organizing Committee

  • Christian HILL, IAEA
  • Gergő POKOL, Institute of Nuclear Techniques, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
  • Károly TŐKÉSI, Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI), Debrecen, Hungary
  • Oleksandr MARCHUK, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

Test cases

Details of the test cases are available as an Excel chart and also for download from a shared Google drive folder. They involve H, D, He, and (optionally) Li and Na, at beam energies of 30, 100 and 1000 keV and plasma conditions representative of those present in fusion devices. To facilitate effective benchmarking, a constant plasma profile is considered. However, additional, three sets of variable conditions of temperature and density along the beam are be provided for optional consideration:

  • ITER_134000_5.txt: ITER scenario
  • fluct_ITER_134000_5.txt: ITER scenario with a single temperature/density fluctuation
  • island_divertor.txt: Density and temperature profiles based on W7-X island divertor high density scenario taken at midplane bean shape cross section.
Density and temperature profiles taken from ITER IMAS
Density and temperature profiles taken from ITER IMAS. Data originally stored in IDS. Shot 134000 Run 5 (Modelling done with JINTRAC) ITER shot at 15 MA and Q=10 with a Pfus =530 MW and a burn duration of several seconds. See Garzotti et al., Nuclear Fusion 59 026006 for further details.
Density and temperature profiles taken from ITER IMAS, with added fluctuation
Density and temperature profiles taken from ITER IMAS database, shot: 134000 at run 5. A density and temperature fluctuation was added with an amplitude of one order of magnitude higher of local density. Fluctuation amplitude was justified based on HESEL modelling.
Density and temperature profiles based on W7-X island divertor high density scenario taken at midplane bean shape cross section.
Density and temperature profiles based on W7-X island divertor high density scenario taken at midplane bean shape cross section.

Agenda

Monday, 26 August 2019

Session 1: Local organising session
12:00 – 13:00Lunch
13:00 – 18:00Working session and meeting coordination
19:00 – 21:00Dinner

Tuesday, 27 August 2019

09:00 – 09:15Károly TŐKÉSI (ATOMKI) and Christian HILL (IAEA): Opening, presentation of goals
Session 2: Presentation of the participating codes and results

Details of the videoconferencing settings required for remote contribution have been emailed to the participants. Technical details of the H.323 configuration required can be found here.

Chair: Károly TŐKÉSI

09:15 – 09:40Örs ASZTALOS (Institute of Nuclear Techniques, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
RENATE: A fluctuation BES synthetic diagnostic
09:40 – 10:05Péter Zsolt PÖLÖSKEI (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany)
FIDASIM and the Collisional Radiative Model
10:05 – 10:30Jari VARJE (Aalto University, Finland)
BBNBI benchmarks
10:30 – 10:45Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:00Manfred VON HELLERMANN
Simulation of Spectra (SOS)
Presented by Gergő POKOL
11:00 – 11:30Martin O'MULLANE (Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
ADAS beam population – a sensitivity study
[presentation (pdf: 944.0 KB)]
11:30 – 12:00Oleksandr MARCHUK (Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Germany)
Collisional Radiative Model: A statistical model
12:00 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 14:30Gergő POKOL (Institute of Nuclear Techniques, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Neutral Beam Penetration and Photoemission Benchmarks
[presentation (pdf: 1012.9 KB)]
14:30 – 15:30Discussion (all): Discussion of comparisons
15:30 – 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00Local working session
19:00 – 21:00Dinner

Wednesday, 28 August 2019

Session 3: Conclusions and Further Work

Chair: Gergő POKOL

09:00 – 10:00Discussion (all): Conclusions of the benchmark results, remote closing
10:00 – 12:00Local working session
12:00 – 12:30Local closing

Presentations

Örs ASZTALOS (Institute of Nuclear Techniques, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
RENATE: A fluctuation BES synthetic diagnostic

Oleksandr MARCHUK (Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Germany)
Collisional Radiative Model: A statistical model

Martin O'MULLANE (Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
ADAS beam population – a sensitivity study
[presentation (pdf: 944.0 KB)]

Gergő POKOL (Institute of Nuclear Techniques, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Neutral Beam Penetration and Photoemission Benchmarks
[presentation (pdf: 1012.9 KB)]

Péter Zsolt PÖLÖSKEI (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany)
FIDASIM and the Collisional Radiative Model

Jari VARJE (Aalto University, Finland)
BBNBI benchmarks

Manfred VON HELLERMANN
Simulation of Spectra (SOS)
Presented by Gergő POKOL