First equilibrium reconstruction for ITER with the code NICE

Blaise Faugeras (1) , Jacques Blum (1) , Cedric Boulbe (1)

1 CASTOR - Control, Analysis and Simulations for TOkamak Research

In this short paper we present the first application of the IMAS compatible code NICE to equilibrium reconstruction for ITER geometry. The inverse problem is formulated as a least square problem and the numerical methods implemented in NICE in order to solve it are presented. The results of a numerical experiment are shown: a reference equilibrium is computed from which a set of synthetic magnetic measurements are extracted. Then these measurements are used successfully to reconstruct the equilibrium of the plasma.

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation

Blaise Faugeras, Jacques Blum, Cedric Boulbe. First equilibrium reconstruction for ITER with the code NICE. Journal of Instrumentation, 2022, 17 (02), pp.C02024. ⟨10.1088/1748-0221/17/02/c02024⟩. ⟨hal-03590775v2⟩