THE PHYSICS AND SIMULATION OF FUSION PLASMAS
TITLE:
THE PHYSICS AND SIMULATION OF FUSION PLASMAS
DATE:
Friday, May 6th, 2011
TIME:
3:30 PM
LOCATION:
GMCS 214
SPEAKER:
Christopher Holland, UCSD
ABSTRACT:
The upcoming ITER experiment (www.iter.org) represents the next major milestone in realizing the promise of using nuclear fusion as a commercial energy source, by moving into the “burning plasma” regime where the dominant heat source is the internal fusion reactions. As part of its support for the ITER mission, the US fusion community is actively developing validated predictive models of the behavior of magnetically confined plasmas. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the physics and status of fusion energy research, and then describe how the plasma community is using the latest high performance computing facilities to develop and refine our models of the nonlinear, multiscale plasma dynamics, and directly testing those models against experiment at an unprecedented level.
HOST:
Jose E. Castillo
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