Compression of tokamak boundary plasma simulation data using a maximum volume algorithm for matrix skeleton decomposition

S De Pascuale, K Allen, DL Green, JD Lore - Journal of Computational …, 2023 - Elsevier
This report demonstrates satisfactory data compression of SOLPS-ITER simulation output
ranging from 2D fields, 1D profiles, and 0D scalar variables with a novel matrix …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical implications of including drifts in SOLPS-ITER simulations of EAST

D Boeyaert, S Carli, W Dekeyser, S Wiesen… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The inclusion of drifts in plasma edge codes like SOLPS-ITER is required to match
simulation data with experimental profiles. However, this remains numerically challenging …

[HTML][HTML] Coupling fluid plasma and kinetic neutral models using correlated Monte Carlo methods

GJ Parker, MV Umansky, BD Dudson - Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2025 - Elsevier
While boundary plasmas in present-day tokamaks generally fall in a fluid regime, neutral
species near the boundary often require kinetic models due to long mean-free-paths …

Discretization error estimation for EU‐DEMO plasma‐edge simulations using SOLPS‐ITER with fluid neutrals

W Van Uytven, W Dekeyser, F Subba… - … to Plasma Physics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A grid refinement study is performed for mean‐field plasma boundary simulations with fluid
neutrals in an EU‐DEMO geometry. In general, grid convergence of the simulations is …