The Plasma Science Fusion Centre (PFSC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hosted last summer the 3rd Computational Physics School for Fusion Research (CPS-FR) in Boston, USA.
Fusion Summer School at the MIT
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Recent research on plasma heating by the Fusion Group
The Fusion Group has been working hard to improve our understanding of the deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasmas carried out at JET during late 2021. These experiments broke the world fusion energy record and are providing us with invaluable physical insight in preparation of ITER’s experiments.
Our research has culminated in two recent papers published at Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. One tackles the optimization of the H and 3He minority heating schemes for D-T, while the other describes a recent upgrade we developed for the calculation of the diffusion operator. A brief overview is given together with their links to the journal version as follows.
My summer stay with the BSC Fusion group
Hi! My name is Jorge Suárez Recio, I am from Oviedo, Spain, and I am going to explain to you an internship at the Fusion Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) that I completed this summer from July 1 to August 30.
Fusenet European Fusion Teacher Day 2022
The 3rd edition of the Fusion Teacher Day took place on the 14th of October. This event is organized by Fusenet and its goal is to promote fusion science and technology among European secondary school students. Our group collaborated in this edition with the participation of Dani Gallart.
Our experience as summer interns at the BSC Fusion Group
We are Guillem and Ruth and during this summer we have been working in the Fusion Group in the frame of BSC International Summer HPC Internship Programme and, in this post, we are delighted to share with you our experience.
Our supervisor during the internship was Dani Gallart, who introduced us to the basics of Fusion and, more specifically Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating during the first weeks through some books and papers as well as personally explaining to us several concepts. Of course, he guided us through the whole project and provided us with the necessary advice when dealing with the simulation codes.
DEMO Prospective R&D Workshop looks ahead to opportunities and challenges in fusion industrialization
In early October, group members Ezequiel Goldberg and Adriana Ghiozzi attended the second biannual DEMO Prospective Research and Development Workshop hosted by EPFL and organized by EUROfusion.
DEMO, or the DEMOnstration fusion power plant, refers to fusion devices to be developed post-ITER which, unlike ITER, will be connected to the electric grid and demonstrate net power production in a closed fuel cycle. Broadly, the goal of the workshop was to identify and discuss the current technical, engineering, and economic gaps between a DEMO device and a future fleet of fully-industrialized electricity-producing fusion devices.