Developing Software For The Study Of Transport Consequences Of Electromagnetic Drift Wave Turbulence In Simplified Tokamak Geometry

Abstract

Nuclear fusion which provides tremendous energy is the solution for the depleting power resources. For nuclear fusion reaction it is necessary to overcome electromagnetic force of protons present in the nucleus which repel each other. This can be done by subjecting matter to immense heat through which it turns to plasma state. A Tokamak is a kind of a plasma confinement device which uses powerful magnetic fields to confine plasma into a very tight loop which is toroidal in shape. At very high temperature in-stabilities created causes hindrance in the plasma reaction. The CUTIE code helps to understand the instabilities affecting the nuclear fusion. This project aims at analysing the data obtained from CUITE code and providing useful inferences about the data. For this purpose an application developed will essentially extract useful data from dump files, analyse the data collected and visualise the data. Open source tools have been considered for the development of the application. Python along with third-party modules are used to develop the application.