On September 20th, a member of our Fusion Group, Hernán Domingo Ramos, successfully defended his Master’s Thesis. His work on numerical simulations of electromagnetic (EM) waves using the finite element method (FEM) in plasma environments, was presented to the steering committee of the European Master of Science in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics, which awarded him with the mention Très Bien, equivalent to outstanding distinctions.
Hi! I’m Diego Bonato, and I have joined the Fusion group to carry out my master’s thesis! My internship will last 6 months, from September 2024 to March 2025, and it’s funded by FuseNet. I will be supervised by Alejandro Soba and Eduardo Cabrera.
During my stay at BSC, I will be working on the development of a Deep Learning model to accelerate the solution of Maxwell’s equations in the context of High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) simulations. This tool will help improve the performance of MAGNET, a package developed in the Fusion group, which simulates HTS in various scenarios. This will be crucial to study the next generation of fusion reactors.
Between October 7 and 9, the 6th MareNostrum Hackathon took place in the Auditorium of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Headquarters.
The members of the Fusion Group who belong to the EUROfusion Advance Computing Hub (ACH) attended this event to deploy, test, port, and optimize plasma fusion codes on the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer. With the assistance of an extraordinary team of mentors and experts, we worked together on the improvement of several codes assigned to our ACH. The group worked on ERO2, BIT1 and XTORK, sharing expertise, experiences and suggestions.
A method to control and optimize memory consumption has been implemented in the JOREK MHD code. It has been documented in the manuscript titled “Implementation of matrix compression in the coupling of JOREK to realistic 3D conducting wall structures” by Federico Cipolletta and collaborators, which was accepted for publication in the Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (PPCF) journal on 22/08/2024 and is available at this link.
The BSC Fusion Group recently gained a new doctorate member! The PhD student, Tomas Bensadon, successfully defended his thesis at the beginning of the month, receiving his doctorate degree and thus joining most of the Fusion Group on having this academic certification. The presentation ended a process that started in September 2020, when Tomas joined the Fusion Group as a PhD student.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) hosts one of the Advanced Computing Hub (ACH) that EUROfusion has created to improve fusion codes following its European Research Roadmap. These codes are essential for advancing fusion energy research, which is a promising sustainable energy source for the future.