Career Opportunities: INT.26.W1.SCD- Improving plasma impurity predictions in the pedestal region (8105)
Internship opportunities at the ITER Organization
Task Title: INT.26.W1.SCD- Improving plasma impurity predictions in the pedestal region
Application Deadline: 06/01/2026
Department: Science & Integration Department
Division / Program: Science Division
Section / Project: Plasma Modelling & Analysis Section
Duration (in months): 6 Months
Location: France, 13067 St Paul Lez Durance Cedex
Short Description: This internship will be focused on coupling FACIT to EDGE2D to provide collisional neoclassical advection velocities to impurities in EDGE2D to improve the EDGE2D plasma model for the pedestal region. In this internship, a python-fortran interface will be written, and physics demonstration simulations will be performed.
Description of tasks:
Task 1: Become familiar with the codes EDGE2D and FACIT, including running and developing on a high-performance computer cluster environment.
Task 2: Export data from plasma edge code and run impurity transport code standalone.
Task 3: Write a coupling routine for an interface between the codes to provide impurity advection terms to the plasma edge code.
Task 4: Demonstrate coupled EDGE2D-FACIT plasma simulations of cases with relevant neoclassical transport.
Task 5: Document the implementation and contribute the changes to the code base on git.
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