Implementation and verification of a HELIAS module for the systems code PROCESS

Abstract

In order to study design points of next-step fusion devices such as DEMO, comprehensive systems codes are commonly employed. The code package PROCESS is such a tool, widely used for tokamak systems studies. In this work, the implementation and verification of a HELIAS module into PROCESS is addressed. These HELIAS models include: a plasma geometry model based on Fourier coefficients, a basic island divertor model, as well as a coil model which combines scaling aspects based on the Helias 5-B reactor design in combination with analytic inductance and field calculations. The models are verified firstly with respect to W7-X. Secondly, the generality of the models is used to represent the tokamak which is compared against the original tokamak PROCESS models using a DEMO design as reference case. Both approaches show very good agreement.