Harnessing plasma’s potential to provide near-limitless energy
Merging plasma physics and engineering for fusion applications
Unraveling the behavior of the fourth state of matter
Understanding and counteracting plasma’s effects on materials
Studying plasma’s reactions to extreme conditions
Drawing practical solutions from lab science
Research Areas / Fusion energy / Modelling nonlocal kinetic transport in 2D fluid SOL simulations
The anticipated high temperature, low-collisonality SOL plasmas of tokamak fusion reactors require capturing nonlocal kinetic energy transport effects in order to have confidence in the predictions from 2D transport codes. This project seeks to apply a reduced-kinetic parallel transport model in an existing large-scale 2D SOL code, to study reactor-relevant plasma conditions. The SNB model, implemented in the BOUT++ framework, will be applied to calculate the parallel thermal transport in the Hermes-3 code. The MAST-U device is considered, then extrapolated up to reactor conditions, and used to study the impact on predictions of upstream plasma profiles and neutral penetration/fuelling.