TRANSP and PTRANSP at PPPL: Status and Plans.

POSTER

Abstract

The PPPL TRANSP code suite is a set of tools for time dependent simulation of tokamak plasmas. The entire system consists of over a million lines of fortran-77, fortran-90, C, and C++ code. Although pieces are over 30 years old, the code has been continually upgraded and modernized, now representing over 60 man-years of labor invested. TRANSP now runs as a service on the Fusion Grid, supporting plasma physics research groups around the world. In this poster, status and plans for TRANSP and associated predictive modeling upgrades (PTRANSP) are summarized. Fusion Grid production system results will be shown. Upgrades to physics models (MHD equilibrium reconstruction, ICRF wave interaction with beam injected fast ions, predictive transport), algorithms (MPI-parallelized source models), and client software (web-browser accessible interactive visualization of run results) will be summarized. The relationship of TRANSP/PTRANSP development efforts to SciDAC and FSP will be discussed. Related posters are cross-referenced.

Authors

  • Douglas McCune

    PPPL, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • R. Andre

    PPPL, Princeton University

  • Eliot Feibush

    PPPL

  • K. Indireshkumar

    PPPL

  • Jae-Min Kwon

    NFRC, Korea

  • Christiane Ludescher-Furth

    PPPL

  • Lew Randerson

    PPPL