3D simulations of vertical displacement events in tokamaks: A benchmark of M3D-C1, NIMROD, and JOREK
3D simulations of vertical displacement events in tokamaks: A benchmark of M3D-C1, NIMROD, and JOREK
In recent years, the nonlinear 3D magnetohydrodynamic codes JOREK, M3D-C1, and NIMROD developed the capability of modeling realistic 3D vertical displacement events (VDEs) including resistive walls. In this paper, a comprehensive 3D VDE benchmark is presented between these state-of-the-art codes. The simulated case is based on an experimental NSTX plasma …