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Getting started

  • Installation
  • Quick start

Tutorials

  • Tutorials
    • Tutorial 1: Loss fraction from a VMEC equilibrium
    • Tutorial 2: Wall heat loads
    • Tutorial 3: SIMPLE inside an optimisation loop

User guide

  • User guide
    • Field sources and coordinates
    • Running SIMPLE
    • Fusion-weighted alpha births
    • Outputs
    • Plotting results
    • Orbit classification
    • Wall heat loads
    • Python interface
    • IMAS workflow
    • GPU tracing
    • Performance
      • Performance measurements
    • Clusters
      • CINECA Leonardo and Pitagora

Model and methods

  • Model and methods
    • Guiding-centre model
    • Coordinates and field representation
    • Integrators
    • Collisions
    • Orbit classification
    • Wall intersection
    • Heat-load estimators
    • Full orbit, SPECTRE and GPU objective

Verification

  • Verification
    • Numerical verification report

Reference

  • Reference
    • Input parameters
    • SIMPLE Input Reference
    • Numerical settings
    • Boozer chartmap format
    • Python API
      • pysimple
    • Example scripts
    • Publications and citation

Development

  • Development
    • Contributing to SIMPLE
    • Coding Standard
    • Architecture
    • Testing
    • Stochastic collision golden case
    • Design notes
      • Coordinate Systems and Magnetic Fields in SIMPLE
      • SPECTRE interface crossing
      • Why guiding-centre interface maps fail at SPECTRE sheets
    • Changelog
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One page per task; all keys with defaults: Input parameters.

  • Inputs and coordinates: Field sources and coordinates. Run settings: Running SIMPLE.

  • Fusion-weighted starts: Fusion-weighted alpha births.

  • Files and exit codes: Outputs. Plots: Plotting results.

  • Regular/chaotic orbits: Orbit classification. Walls: Wall heat loads.

  • Python: Python interface. IMAS IDS: IMAS workflow. GPU: GPU tracing. Cost and clusters: Performance, Clusters.

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