Tokamak transport modeling scenarios, including ITER [ITER Physics Basis Editors, Nucl. Fusion39, 2137 (1999)] performance predictions, are based exclusively on reduced models for core thermal and particle transport. The reason for this is simple: computational cost. A typical modeling scenario may require the evaluation of thousands of individual transport fluxes (local transport models calculate the energy and particle fluxes across a specified flux surface given fixed profiles). Despite continuous advances in direct gyrokinetic simulation, the cost of an individual simulation remains so high that direct gyrokinetic transport calculations have been avoided. By developing a steady-state iteration scheme suitable for direct gyrokinetic and neoclassical simulations, we can now compute steady-state temperature profiles for DIII-D [J. L. Luxon, Nucl. Fusion42, 614 (2002)] plasmas given known plasma sources. The new code, TGYRO, encapsulates the GYRO [J. Candy and R. E. Waltz, J. Comput. Phys.186, 545 (2003)] code, for turbulent transport, and the NEO [E. A. Belli and J. Candy, Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion50, 095010 (2008)] code, for kinetic neoclassical transport. Results for DIII-D L-mode discharge 128913 are given, with computational and experimental results consistent in the region 0r/a0.8.

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