ukaea / PROCESS

PROCESS is a systems code at UKAEA that calculates in a self-consistent manner the parameters of a fusion power plant with a specified performance, ensuring that its operating limits are not violated, and with the option to optimise to a given function of these parameters.
https://ukaea.github.io/PROCESS/
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Implement suite of new bootstrap current scalings #3344

Closed chris-ashe closed 1 week ago

chris-ashe commented 1 month ago

While doing work on #3263, I came across several papers giving lists of bootstrap current scalings not yet implemented in PROCESS though could easily be.

From the paper by Tobias Hartman there is this list (https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:45031642):

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There is also scalings from this paper by Ki. G et.al. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2014.07.009)

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Gi et.al also presents two scalings of their own type


There is also scalings from the recently implemented Sakai et.al paper (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092037961930818X?via%3Dihub)

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mkovari commented 1 month ago

Sounds like a great idea, but I would argue that one up-to-date and credible scaling with some thought put into the implementation is better than a dozen scalings that no-one will use.

Note that the Sakai scaling has already been implemented - #3268.