Axisymmetric simulations of vertical displacement events in tokamaks: A benchmark of M3D-C${}^1$, NIMROD and JOREK

I. Krebs, F. J. Artola, C. R. Sovinec +4

A benchmark exercise for the modeling of vertical displacement events (VDEs) is presented and applied to the 3D nonlinear magneto-hydrodynamic codes M3D-C${}^1$, JOREK and NIMROD. Th…