Tokamak Climatology: Plasma Turbulence on a Supercomputer, Dr Peter Knight, UKAEA.
Fusion energy is a potentially exciting solution to the world’s energy crisis, and fundamental research into fusion is focussed on the interaction of plasma and magnetic fields within toroidal machines called tokamaks. Numerical simulation of plasma turbulence is a critical tool in the understanding of the transport of energy and particles in tokamaks, and the power of supercomputers is increasingly being used to perform such simulations. This talk will provide a brief introduction to the basics of fusion power, and how researchers at the UK’s centre for fusion research at Culham in Oxfordshire are using supercomputers to address some aspects of plasma turbulence modelling.