Pedestal scalings using published data #2931
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Note that the central temperature function has been found to be incorrect as is now replaced by |
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The DEMO pedestal scaling has been removed from the open source version of PROCESS as it was based on EUROfusion data.
The best we can get to a published version is here.
If we want a scaling based on real published data we could try these papers:
Role of the separatrix density in the pedestal performance in deuterium low triangularity JET-ILW plasmas and comparison with JET-C (26 pages) , and
Pedestal structure, stability and scalings in JET-ILW: the EUROfusion JET-ILW pedestal database (50 pages),
both by Lorenzo Frassinetti.
Remember also that using such scalings can give perverse results. If, for example, you increase the pedestal density, but you don't change the volume-average density, the code will reduce the central density, which is unphysical. (The central density can even become negative - see #736.)
Note that the behaviour is different with the central temperature, which is given by a completely different formula:
$T_{ped}$ appears with a plus sign at the beginning of the formula, but the sign of the second term depends on the sign of $\gamma$ .
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