Development of a fast control-oriented nonlinear plasma equilibrium code

This WP aims at developing a fast version of the CREATE-NL equilibrium code  to enable nonlinear plasma simulations in the Simulink environment, as required by the training task for DRL control agents.

The CREATE-NL code has been developed as a Matlab code by members of the TRAINER project team. It is a Finite Element Method (FEM) first order evolutionary solver of the Grad-Shafranov equations including dynamics of the active conductors and passive conductive toroidally continuous structures in which eddy currents are induced.

In parallel a parameter varying linear model of the tokamak will be implemented to preliminary test the proposed data driven algorithms with a simulation computational time reduced by a factor of 100.

WP0 includes a single task, namely:

[T0.1] – Development of a fast version of a plasma equilibrium code to be executed within the Simulink environment and of an approximate parameter varying linear model of the plasma/tokamak dynamics

The following deliverables are expected as outcome of [WP0]:

[D1] – Approximate parameter varying linear model of the plasma response

[D2] – Simulink version of the fast CREATE-NL plasma equilibrium code