Section: Research Program

Plasma Physics

Participants : Jacques Blum, Cédric Boulbe, Blaise Faugeras, Hervé Guillard, Holger Heumann, Sebastian Minjeaud, Boniface Nkonga, Richard Pasquetti, Afeintou Sangam.

The main reseach topics are:

1. Modelling and analysis

   • Fluid closure in plasma

   • Turbulence

   • Plasma anisotropy type instabilities

   • Free boundary equilibrium (FBE)

   • Coupling FBE – Transport

2. Numerical methods and simulations

   • High order methods

   • Curvilinear coordinate systems

   • Equilibrium simulation

   • Pressure correction scheme

   • Anisotropy

   • Solving methods and parallelism

3. Identification and control

   • Inverse problem: Equilibrium reconstruction

   • Open loop control

4. Applications

   • MHD instabilities : Edge-Localized Modes (ELMs)

   • Edge plasma turbulence

   • Optimization of scenarii