Predicting the Performance and Impact of Dynamic PFC Surfaces
Project Summary
The objective of this project is to develop, and integrate, high-performance simulation tools capable of predicting plasma facing component (PFC) operating lifetime and the impact of the evolving surface morphology and composition of tungsten-based PFCs on plasma contamination, including the dynamic recycling of fuel species and tritium retention, in future magnetic fusion devices. This project will enable discovery of phenomena controlling critical PFC performance issues, and quantitatively predict their impact on both steady-state and transient plasma conditions. The outcome of this project will be a suite of coupled plasma and materials modeling tools, and a leadership class PFC simulator to predict PFC evolution and feedback to the boundary plasma. Success in the proposed research tasks will enable the prediction of both plasma fueling and the sources of impurity contamination that impact core plasma performance, and will lay the foundation for understanding, designing and developing the materials required to meet the performance objectives of future fusion reactors.
This project builds upon our SciDAC-3 project: Plasma Surface Interactions: Bridging from the Surface to the Micron Frontier through Leadership Computing
Publications and Presentations
Team
| Institution | Principal Investigator | Additional Participants | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | ANL | Barry Smith (bsmith@mcs.anl.gov) | |
  | GA/DIII-D | Phil Snyder (snyder@fusion.gat.com) | Rui Ding, Jerome Guterl, Orso Meneghini |
 | LANL | Enrique Martinez (enriquem@lanl.gov) | Sham Bhat, Danny Perez, Arthur Voter |
| LLNL | Ilon Joseph (joseph5@llnl.gov) | Mikhail Dorf, Milo Dorr, Maxim Umansky |
| ORNL* | Brian D. Wirth* (bdwirth@utk.edu) | David E. Bernholdt, John Canik, Philip Fackler, David L. Green, James Kress, David Pugmire, Pablo Seleson, Clayton Webster Alumni: Philip C. Roth |
 | PNNL | Rick Kurtz (rj.kurtz@pnnl.gov) | Giridhar Nandipati, Kenny Roche |
| RPI | Mark Shephard (shephard@rpi.edu) | Onkar Sahni, Seegyoung Seol, Cameron Smith |
| SNL | Habib Najm (hnnajm@sandia.gov) | Aidan Thompson, Khachik Sargsyan, Mitch Wood |
| UCSD | Sergei Krasheninnikov (skrash@mae.ucsd.edu) | Russ Doerner, Roman Smirnov |
 | UIUC | Davide Curreli (dcurreli@illinois.edu) | Jon Drobny, Rinat Khaziev |
 | UMass | Dimitrios Maroudas (maroudas@ecs.umass.edu) | |
 | U Missouri | Karl Hammond (hammondkd@missouri.edu) | Brandon Laufer |
 | U Tennessee - Knoxville | Brian Wirth (bdwirth@utk.edu) | Zach Bergstrom, Sophie Blondel, Mary Alice Cusentino, Dwaipayan Dasgupta, Ane Lasa, David Martin, Li Yang, Tim Younkin |
* Lead Institution and Lead Principal Investigator
Sponsor
This project is part of the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program, and is jointly sponsored by the Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) and Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) programs within the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. The period of performance is 2017-09-01/2022-08-31.
Key Partners
| Program | Project | Joint Participants (Primary Liaison) |
|---|---|---|
| SciDAC Fusion Projects | AToM - Advanced Tokamak Modeling Environment | David E. Bernholdt (ORNL), Mikhail Dorf (LLNL), Milo Dorr (LLNL), David L. Green (ORNL), Phil Snyder (GA), Maxim Umansky (LLNL) |
Center for Integrated Simulation of Fusion Relevant RF Actuators | Davide Curreli (UIUC), David L. Green (ORNL), Ilon Joseph (LLNL), Maxim Umansky (LLNL) | |
Partnership Center for High-fidelity Boundary Plasma Simulations (HBPS) | Davide Curreli (UIUC), Mark Shephard (RPI) | |
| FES Theory and ASCR Math Programs | Edge Simulation Laboratory (ESL) | Mikhail Dorf (LLNL), Milo Dorr (LLNL), Sergei Krasheninnikov (UCSD), Phil Snyder (GA) |
| SciDAC Nuclear Energy Projects | Advancing Understanding of Fission Gas Behavior in Nuclear Fuel through Leadership Class Computing | David E. Bernholdt (ORNL), Sophie Blondel (UTK), James Kress (ORNL), Rick Kurtz (PNNL), David Pugmire (ORNL), Kenny Roche (PNNL), Philip C. Roth (ORNL), Barry Smith (ANL), Blas Uberaga (LANL), Brian Wirth (UTK/ORNL) |
| Simulation of Fission Gas in Uranium Oxide Nuclear Fuel | David E. Bernholdt (ORNL), Sophie Blondel (UTK), James Kress (ORNL), Habib Najm (SNL), David Pugmire (ORNL), Philip C. Roth (ORNL), Barry Smith (ANL), Blas Uberaga (LANL), Brian Wirth (UTK/ORNL) | |
| SciDAC Institutes | FASTMath – Frameworks, Algorithms, and Scalable Technologies for Mathematics | Sham Bhat (LANL), Habib Najm (SNL), Khachik Sargsyan (SNL), Onkar Sahni (RPI), Mark Shephard (RPI), Barry Smith (ANL) |
| RAPIDS - Resource and Application Productivity through computing, Information, and Data Science | David Bernholdt (ORNL), James Kress (ORNL), David Pugmire (ORNL), Phil Roth (ORNL) |