R. Jorge

Sep 3, 2024 | link.aps.org | R. Jorge |Instituto Técnico |Universidade de Lisboa |W. Dorland

Turbulent transport is regarded as one of the key issues in magnetic confinement nuclear fusion, both for tokamaks and stellarators. In this work, we show that a significant decrease in a microstability-based proxy, as opposed to a geometric one, for the turbulent heat flux, namely the quasilinear heat flux, can be obtained in an efficient manner by coupling stellarator optimization with linear gyrokinetic simulations.