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I am Eric Planas, and as part of the BSc in Engineering Physics program at Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya (UPC), in February 10th I joined the Fusion Group at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in order to carry out my Final Degree Thesis<\/strong>. Now that I am finishing the project and my journey as an undergraduate student is coming to an end, I am writing this post to relate my experience in this group.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n My project, entitled \u201cModelling and simulation of plasma heating with ICRF waves in JET tokamak<\/em>\u201d, consists of the numerical modelling of present plasma discharges carried out at the Joint European Torus<\/a><\/strong>. Strong emphasis has been given in the analysis of the impact of ion cyclotron resonance frequency heating (ICRH) on the fusion performance<\/strong>. In particular, I have modelled several record discharges of the present D majority campaign which featured a hydrogen minority population. Besides, I have extrapolated the results of one of them to a 50%:50% D-T scenario to contribute to the preparation of the next D-T campaign (DTE2)<\/strong> planned to begin in 2021.<\/p>\n Regarding my stay in the group, I felt welcome from the very first day by all the members. I was assigned a mentor, Dr Dani Gallart<\/strong>, who helped me to settle in. I barely knew anything about fusion and plasma heating, so he gently taught me all I needed to know on the topic. He also taught me how to use the PION code<\/strong>, which I used to perform the simulations to develop my project, and how to use the JET database<\/strong> to collect useful experimental data for my analysis.<\/p>\n In the middle of my stay in the group, due to the COVID-19 outbreak we were forced to work from home<\/strong> for an indefinite amount of time, so I had to carry on with my project under rather challenging circumstances. Nevertheless, we managed to adapt ourselves to the new conditions<\/strong>, keeping in touch via videoconferences and having frequent meetings to comment on the work progress and on any issues that might arise.<\/p>\n In June 29th I am submitting my Undergraduate thesis and I am defending it in July<\/strong>. I am happy with the results and I truly enjoyed my stay here doing this project. Besides, I have been able take a glimpse on what is like to work in real research and specially in a field that has the potential to change the world. Therefore, all I can say is thank you very much to all the members of Fusion Group to make it possible!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am Eric Planas, and as part of the BSc in Engineering Physics program at Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya (UPC), in February 10th I joined the Fusion Group at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in order to carry out my Final Degree Thesis. Now that I am finishing the project and my journey as an undergraduate … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group","category-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5034,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions\/5034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}