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TRANSP
TRANSP is a computational tool developed at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) for the interpretive and predictive modeling of plasma behavior in magnetic confinement fusion experiments. The goal of this research is to develop clean, abundant, and sustainable energy to mitigate rapid climate change, enhance energy security, and provide long-term solutions to global energy needs. TRANSP has been primarily used to analyze data from tokamak experiments and it also can be applied to other magnetic confinement devices. TRANSP supports studies related to plasma transport, fast ion dynamics, heating, particle fueling, and momentum transport. The web site for TRANSP is https://transp.pppl.gov TRANSP uses Fortran, C/C++, Java, Python, Perl, Bash, and C shell scripts. It supports OpenMP, Open MPI, and Open ACC. TRANSP is stored on GitHub. TRANSP implements Monte Carlo methods with MPI to calculate with message passing interface (MPI) processing. TRANSP contains a powerful Monte Carlo method module, NUBEAM for computing kinetic properties of fast ions, such as neutral beam injected ions and fusion alpha particles. The computed properties include the distributions fast ions energy in space, energy, and the ratio of parallel to the plasma current velocity to perpendicular to the plasma current.…
Article summary
TRANSP is a computational tool developed at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) for the interpretive and predictive modeling of plasma behavior in magnetic confinement fusion experiments. The goal of this research is to develop clean, abundant, and sustainable energy to mitigate rapid climate change, enhance energy security, and provide long-term solutions to global energy needs. TRANSP has been primarily used to analyze data from tokamak experiments and it also can be applied to other magnetic confinement devices. TRANSP supports studies related to plasma transport, fast ion dynamics, heating, particle fueling, and momentum transport. The web site for TRANSP is https://transp.pppl.gov TRANSP uses Fortran, C/C++, Java, Python, Perl, Bash, and C shell scripts. It supports OpenMP, Open MPI, and Open ACC. TRANSP is stored on GitHub. TRANSP implements Monte Carlo methods with MPI to calculate with message passing interface (MPI) processing. TRANSP contains a powerful Monte Carlo method module, NUBEAM for computing kinetic properties of fast ions, such as neutral beam injected ions and fusion alpha particles. The computed properties include the distributions fast ions energy in space, energy, and the ratio of parallel to the plasma current velocity to perpendicular to the plasma current.…
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