… DIFFER Seminar: Optimizing fusion power plant design with integrated simulation using … learning, and reduced models to address the intricate physics and engineering challenges critical to achieving net … power plants. Some time ago, in 2016, I was at DIFFER for a research internship focused on creating a zero-dimensional …
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… M. van Berkel, H. Reimerdes, M. Wensing and E. Westerhof, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 64 (2022) 125013. link This paper presents DIV1D, a new 1D dynamic physics-based model of the divertor plasma under development …
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… 'Indispensible' research facilities help develop future fusion materials Published on April 28, 2025 Visitors to … has to face. Image Tungsten blocks being exposed to intense plasma conditions in Magnum-PSI. Credit: DIFFER / Bart van …
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… tool for ITER Published on February 26, 2019 Dutch research institutes TNO and DIFFER will be joining with … tool capable of measuring the impurity content of the plasma—important information for regulating neutral beam heating power on the nuclear fusion project ITER . Left to right: Wouter Vijvers, …
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… Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research DIFFER Published on January 09, 2012 9 January 2012 … Dutch organisation for scientific research NWO and of its physics branch FOM , the foundation for fundamental research … fundamental energy research in the fields of nuclear fusion and solar fuels. DIFFER also aims to take on a …
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… Machine learning highly speeds up the modelling of nuclear fusion reactors Published on March 29, 2021 Using machine … of the plasma inside a nuclear fusion reactor. DIFFER-researchers are pioneering very fast neural network models … same technique can also be used for modelling additional physics components.” Replace reduced-physics models …
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… Science and industry explore opportunities at first Dutch Fusion Day Published on April 04, 2024 On Friday 3 May 2024, … and will conclude with an (optional) tour of DIFFER's research facilities. The intention is to make this first … and will conclude with an (optional) tour of DIFFER's research facilities. The intention is to make this first …
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… PhD defense: Artur Perek DIFFER PhD researcher Artur Perek will defend his thesis Development … of quantitative multispectral imaging in nuclear fusion research. Research summary Nuclear fusion has the … confinement devices are used to create and study fusion plasmas. A power-plant class device would have to sustain …
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… MANTIS diagnostic analyses fusion plasma in real time Published on October 17, 2018 The new … and real-time capabilities make it an interesting tool for researchers; several research groups at TCV are already …
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… 17, 2020 Tijs Wijkamp won the Shell Graduation Award for Physics 2020 for the master project he carried out at … Wijkamp, photo Bart van Overbeeke Award Ceremony DIFFER researcher Wijkamp feels honored to receive the Shell … project at DIFFER. His research field was diagnostics in fusion research. A hurdle for commercial fusion reactor is …
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… Spin-out of fusion robotics to health care and industry Published on … February, the Dutch Remote Handling Study Center (RHSC) for research into remotely controlled robots has spun out to … can use force feedback to experiment with maintenance procedures in a lifelike simulation , avoiding the costly and …
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… use of Magnum-PSI Published on May 23, 2019 During the Plasma Facing Components Conference PFMC2019 , DIFFER has installed a Steering Committee for its research facility Magnum-PSI . Greg De Temmerman (ITER … to the extreme plasma conditions at the edge of future fusion power plants. Research on Magnum-PSI includes work on …
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… PhD Defense: Jos Scholte tested liquid metal to protect fusion reactor walls Published on June 03, 2025 Future … not crack or melt under the intense heat inside. In his PhD research, mechanical engineer Jos Scholte (TU/e and DIFFER) … ASDEX-Upgrade at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics IPP near Munich. To verify that his design would …
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… First plasma and more in KEROGREEN project Published on October … This project is a stepping stone for DIFFER to develop a research plasma reactor into a more generic (turn-key) unit … work within KEROGREEN is headed by Mihalis Tsampas from the research group Catalytic and electrochemical processes for …
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… Atmospheric plasma creates competitive moisture resistant foil Published … 2015 In the journal Plasma Processes and Polymers, plasma researcher Sergey Starostin and his colleagues at Fujifilm Research and DIFFER demonstrate the viability of a new …
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