TERPSICHORE

TERPSICHORE: A Three-Dimensional Ideal Magnetohydrodynamic Stability Program. The 3D ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability code TERPSICHORE has been designed to take advantage of vector and microtasking capabilities of the latest generation CRAY computers. To keep the number of operations small most efficient algorithms have been applied in each computational step. The program investigates the stability properties of fusion reactor relevant plasma configurations confined by magnetic fields. For a typical 3D HELIAS configuration that has been considered we obtain an overall performance of 1.7 Gflops on an eight processor CRAY-YMP machine.

Keywords for this software

gyrokinetics
toroidal direction
plasma two fluid numerical model
edge plasma
spectral methods
FEM
high order methods
high order method based on Fourier expansions
magnetic confined fusion
spectral element method (SEM)
Braginskii closures
anisotropic diffusion
poloidal plane
comparisons with finite element results

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Minjeaud, Sebastian; Pasquetti, Richard: Fourier-spectral element approximation of the ion-electron Braginskii system with application to tokamak edge plasma in divertor configuration (2016)
Bonnement, A.; Minjeaud, S.; Pasquetti, R.: Towards a high order Fourier-SEM solver of fluid models in tokamaks (2014)
McMillan, B. F.; Jolliet, S.; Bottino, A.; Angelino, P.; Tran, T. M.; Villard, L.: Rapid Fourier space solution of linear partial integro-differential equations in toroidal magnetic confinement geometries (2010)