H.E.A.T. Documentation¶
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General Information¶
The Heat flux Engineering Analysis Toolkit (HEAT) is a suite of tools for predicting the heat flux incident upon PFCs in tokamaks, and the associated PFC state (ie temperature). The toolkit connects CAD, FVM, MHD, Plasma Physics, Visualization, HPC, and more, in one streamlined package. The objective is to enable engineers and physicists to quickly ascertain heat loads given specific magnetic configurations and geometric configurations.
- Some examples of what HEAT can predict:
3D heat loads from 2D plasmas for limited and diverted discharges
Heat fluxes from the optical and ion gyro orbit approximations
Time varying heat loads and temperature profiles
Magnetic field line traces
Many other quantities
The following physics modules are scheduled to be added to HEAT soon: 1) Photon tracing, ie radiated power using CHERAB 2) 3D plasmas using M3DC1
A HEAT paper has been published by the journal Fusion Science and Technology under open access and can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1951532
- For users who want to run HEAT, there are two options:
An appImage for running with a single executable on Linux
A docker container, which also allows HEAT development
To visualize HEAT results, the user will need an installation of ParaVIEW. There has been some work to include paraview into the HEAT html interface using paraviewweb, but this is NOT included in the releases. More information on ParaVIEW can be found at https://www.paraview.org/ and ParaVIEW can be downloaded here https://www.paraview.org/download/. Download version for your operating system and follow instructions to run.