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Ebihara, Kenichi; Sekine, Daiki*; Sakiyama, Yuji*; Takahashi, Jun*; Takai, Kenichi*; Omura, Tomohiko*
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 48(79), p.30949 - 30962, 2023/09
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.01(Chemistry, Physical)To understand hydrogen embrittlement (HE), which is one of the stress corrosion cracking of steel materials, it is necessary to know the H distribution in steel, which can be effectively interpreted by numerical simulation of thermal desorption spectra. In weld metals and TRIP steels, residual austenite significantly influences the spectra, but a clear H distribution is not well known. In this study, an originally coded two-dimensional model was used to numerically simulate the previously reported spectra of high-carbon ferritic-austenitic duplex stainless steels, and it was found that H is mainly trapped at the carbide surface when the amount of H in the steel is low and at the duplex interface when the amount of H is high. It was also found that the thickness dependence of the H desorption peak for the interface trap site is caused by a different reason than the conventional one.
Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Todo, Yasushi*; Honda, Mitsuru*
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi ATOMO
, 64(3), p.152 - 156, 2022/03
Understanding of physical processes of particle, momentum, and thermal transports is essential for predicting the confinement performance of burning plasmas in ITER, which is targeting the scientific demonstration of magnetic confinement fusion. First principles based simulations on Fugaku disclosed physical mechanisms such as complex transport processes of multi-scale turbulence in deuterium-tritium plasmas and kinetic effects in energetic particle transport due to electromagnetic fluctuations. We promote further research and development of first principles based simulations towards the performance prediction of burning plasmas.
Idomura, Yasuhiro; Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Todo, Yasushi*
Shimyureshon, 38(2), p.79 - 86, 2019/06
We promote the research and development of exascale fusion plasma simulations on Post-K towards estimation and prediction of core plasma performance, and exploration of improved operation scenarios on the next generation fusion experimental reactor ITER. In this paper, we review developed exascale simulation technologies and outcomes from validation studies on existing experimental devices, and discuss perspectives on exascale fusion plasma simulations on Post-K.
Maeyama, Shinya*; Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Nakata, Motoki*; Nunami, Masanori*
Computer Physics Communications, 235, p.9 - 15, 2019/02
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：45.72(Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications)We have implemented the Sugama collision operator in the gyrokinetic Vlasov simulation code, GKV, with an implicit time-integration scheme. The new method is versatile and independent of the details of the linearized collision operator, by means of an operator splitting, an implicit time integrator, and an iterative Krylov subspace solver. Numerical tests demonstrate stable computation over the time step size restricted by the collision term. An efficient implementation for parallel computation on distributed memory systems is realized by using the data transpose communication, which makes the iterative solver free from inter-node communications during iteration. Consequently, the present approach achieves enhancement of computational efficiency and reduction of computational time to solution simultaneously, and significantly accelerates the total performance of the application.
Maeyama, Shinya*; Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Nakata, Motoki*; Ishizawa, Akihiro*; Nunami, Masanori*
Nuclear Fusion, 57(6), p.066036_1 - 066036_10, 2017/05
Times Cited Count：16 Percentile：65.35(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Multi-scale plasma turbulence including electron and ion temperature gradient (ETG/ITG) modes has been investigated by means of electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulations. Triad transfer analyses on nonlinear mode coupling reveal cross-scale interactions between electron and ion scales. One of the interactions is suppression of electron-scale turbulence by ion- scale turbulence, where ITG-driven short-wavelength eddies act like shear flows and suppress ETG turbulence. Another cross-scale interaction is enhancement of ion-scale turbulence in the presence of electron-scale turbulence. This is caused via short-wavelength zonal flows, which are created by the response of passing kinetic electrons in ITG turbulence, suppress ITG turbulence by their shearing, and are damped by ETG turbulence. In both cases, sub-ion-scale structures between electron and ion scales play important roles in the cross-scale interactions.
Ishizawa, Akihiro*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Imadera, Kenji*; Kasuya, Naohiro*; Kanno, Ryutaro*; Satake, Shinsuke*; Tatsuno, Tomoya*; Nakata, Motoki*; Nunami, Masanori*; Maeyama, Shinya*; et al.
Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 92(3), p.157 - 210, 2016/03
The high-performance computer system Helios which is located at The Computational Simulation Centre (CSC) in The International Fusion Energy Research Centre (IFERC) started its operation in January 2012 under the Broader Approach (BA) agreement between Japan and the EU. The Helios system has been used for magnetised fusion related simulation studies in the EU and Japan and has kept high average usage rate. As a result, the Helios system has contributed to many research products in a wide range of research areas from core plasma physics to reactor material and reactor engineering. This project review gives a short catalogue of domestic simulation research projects. First, we outline the IFERC-CSC project. After that, shown are objectives of the research projects, numerical schemes used in simulation codes, obtained results and necessary computations in future.
Maeyama, Shinya; Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Nakata, Motoki; Nunami, Masanori*; Ishizawa, Akihiro*
Parallel Computing, 49, p.1 - 12, 2015/11
Times Cited Count：7 Percentile：52.66(Computer Science, Theory & Methods)Maeyama, Shinya*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Nakata, Motoki*; Yagi, Masatoshi; Miyato, Naoaki; Ishizawa, Akihiro*; Nunami, Masanori*
Physical Review Letters, 114(25), p.255002_1 - 255002_5, 2015/06
Times Cited Count：92 Percentile：95.19(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Multiscale gyrokinetic turbulence simulations with the real ion-to-electron mass ratio and 
value are realized for the first time, where the value is given by the ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure and characterizes electromagnetic effects on microinstabilities. Numerical analysis at both the electron scale and the ion scale is used to reveal the mechanism of their cross-scale interactions. Even with the real- mass scale separation, ion-scale turbulence eliminates electron-scale streamers and dominates heat transport, not only of ions but also of electrons. When the ion-scale modes are stabilized by finite- effects, the contribution of the electron-scale dynamics to the turbulent transport becomes non-negligible and turns out to enhance ion-scale turbulent transport.
Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Maeyama, Shinya; Nakata, Motoki; Sugama, Hideo*; Nunami, Masanori*; Ishizawa, Akihiro*
Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 510, p.012045_1 - 012045_11, 2014/05
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：49.71(Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications)Plasma turbulence accompanied with fluctuations of the distribution function and the electromagnetic fields develops on the phase space composed of the configuration space and the velocity space. Detailed structures of the distribution function in magnetic fusion plasmas are investigated by means of gyrokinetic simulations performed on massively parallel supercomputers. The gyrokinetic simulations of drift wave turbulence have demonstrated entropy transfer in the phase space, zonal flow enhancement by helical fields and the resultant transport reduction. The state-of-the-art high performance computing is utilized for a multi- scale turbulence simulation covering ion- and electron-scales and for a global-scale simulation of turbulent transport in a sub-ITER sized plasma.
Maeyama, Shinya; Ishizawa, Akihiro*; Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Nakata, Motoki; Miyato, Naoaki; Yagi, Masatoshi; Idomura, Yasuhiro
Physics of Plasmas, 21(5), p.052301_1 - 052301_12, 2014/05
Times Cited Count：15 Percentile：59(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Maeyama, Shinya; Ishizawa, Akihiro*; Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Nakata, Motoki; Miyato, Naoaki; Idomura, Yasuhiro
Plasma and Fusion Research (Internet), 9, p.1203020_1 - 1203020_3, 2014/03
Idomura, Yasuhiro; Nakata, Motoki; Yamada, Susumu; Machida, Masahiko; Imamura, Toshiyuki*; Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Nunami, Masanori*; Inoue, Hikaru*; Tsutsumi, Shigenobu*; Miyoshi, Ikuo*; et al.
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 28(1), p.73 - 86, 2014/02
Times Cited Count：17 Percentile：76.04(Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture)Ebihara, Kenichi; Iwamoto, Takashi*; Matsubara, Yukio*; Yamada, Hiroki*; Okamura, Tsukasa*; Urushihara, Wataru*; Omura, Tomohiko*
ISIJ International, 54(1), p.153 - 159, 2014/01
Times Cited Count：13 Percentile：53.08(Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering)For understanding the mechanism of hydrogen embrittlement that is one cause of stress corrosion cracking, it is necessary to identify the location of hydrogen segregation (hydrogen existing state) in steels. The thermal desorption spectrum of hydrogen that is obtained by measuring hydrogen desorbing from specimens heated at a constant rate is a useful data for identifying the hydrogen existing state. In the paper, using the numerical simulation, we examined the difference of the thermal desorption spectra between two specimens of pre-strained high-strength steel, one was charged with hydrogen by the method used widely in laboratories, the other was by the method simulating hydrogen penetration in real environment. As a result, it was found that the difference results from the difference of the initial hydrogen distribution caused by the amount of charged hydrogen. If the amount of charged hydrogen is small, the thermal desorption spectrum is more sensitive to the initial distribution.
Maeyama, Shinya; Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Nakata, Motoki; Nunami, Masanori*; Ishizawa, Akihiro*
Plasma and Fusion Research (Internet), 8, p.1403150_1 - 1403150_8, 2013/11
Ebihara, Kenichi; Iwamoto, Takashi*; Miwa, Noriaki*; Yamada, Hiroki*; Okamura, Tsukasa*; Urushihara, Wataru*; Omura, Tomohiko*
"Suiso Zeika Kenkyu No Kiban Kochiku" Kenkyukai Hokokusho, p.21 - 26, 2013/10
In order to explore the properly hydrogen-charging method for the estimation of hydrogen embrittlement of steels, in the workshop of Fundamental construction for hydrogen embrittlement supported by the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan of which I took part for understanding the mechanism of hydrogen embrittlement which is one cause of stress corrosion cracking, the thermal desorption spectrum of hydrogen and the amount of charged hydrogen were estimated among various kinds of steels charged with hydrogen by various methods. The presentation is a part of a series of the final report about the results obtained in the workshop. In the presentation, I talk about the numerical estimation of the desorption spectrum of low alloy steel mainly on the basis of the paper which is going to be published in the ISIJ International. Particularly, the kind of defects in the steel that capture hydrogen forming the spectrum and the experimental method for identifying the defects are explained in details.
Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Idomura, Yasuhiro
Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 89(3), p.171 - 179, 2013/03
Idomura, Yasuhiro; Nakata, Motoki; Yamada, Susumu; Machida, Masahiko; Imamura, Toshiyuki*; Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Nunami, Masanori*; Inoue, Hikaru*; Tsutsumi, Shigenobu*; Miyoshi, Ikuo*; et al.
Proceedings of 31st JSST Annual Conference; International Conference on Simulation Technology (JSST 2012) (USB Flash Drive), p.234 - 242, 2012/09
Satake, Shinsuke*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Sugama, Hideo*; Watanabe, Tomohiko*
Computer Physics Communications, 181(6), p.1069 - 1076, 2010/06
Times Cited Count：34 Percentile：83.69(Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications)Two simulation codes that solve the drift-kinetic or gyrokinetic equation in toroidal plasmas are benchmarked by comparing the simulation results of neoclassical transport. In a tokamak configuration, neoclassical radial heat flux and the force balance relation, which relates the parallel mean flow with radial electric field and temperature gradient, are compared between these two codes, and their results are also compared with the local neoclassical transport theory. It is found that the simulation results of the two codes coincide very well in a wide rage of plasma collisionality parameter 
and also agree with the theoretical estimations. The time evolution of radial electric field and particle flux, and the radial profile of the geodesic acoustic mode frequency also coincide very well.
Garbet, X.*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Villard, L.*; Watanabe, Tomohiko*
Nuclear Fusion, 50(4), p.043002_1 - 043002_30, 2010/04
Times Cited Count：265 Percentile：74.19(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)This overview is an assessment of the gyrokinetic framework and simulations to compute the turbulent transport in fusion plasmas. It covers an introduction to the gyrokinetic theory, the principal numerical techniques which are being used to solve the gyrokinetic equations, fundamentals in gyrokinetic turbulence and the main results which have been brought by simulations with regard to transport in fusion devices and actuation measurements.
Idomura, Yasuhiro; Watanabe, Tomohiko*; Sugama, Hideo*
AIP Conference Proceedings 1013, p.270 - 286, 2008/07
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