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PhD defense: Michele Marin

DIFFER PhD-researcher Michele Marin will defend his thesis titled "Integrated modelling of multiple-ion tokamak discharges: validation and extrapolation", on September 1st of 2021 at 13h30. 

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Understanding transport of deuterium and tritium
In this PhD dissertation, integrated modelling of multiple ion plasmas is studied. Understanding the transport of deuterium and tritium is essential to predict and inform the control of the fusion burn. Multiple impurities will unavoidably be present in the plasma and the scope of their impact ranges from  plasma performance and heat exhaust to disruptivity and helium accumulation. Self-consistent modelling of impurities provides useful insight in such processes. The main tools utilized are the integrated modelling suite JINTRAC, with first-principle-based QuaLiKiz as the reduced turbulent transport model,  and the high-fidelity gyrokinetic code GENE for targeted validations. The overarching strategy consists of observing a phenomenon in experiments, reproducing it within integrated modelling, identifying the crucial physics underlying the observations and validating it with higher fidelity standalone modelling.

Committee
1 e promotor: prof.dr. N.J. Lopes Cardozo
2 e promotor: prof.dr. M.R. de Baar
co-promotor: dr.ir. J. Citrin

Background information
Research group: Integrated Modelling and Transport
TU/e Link: Integrated modelling of multiple-ion tokamak discharges: validation and extrapolation — Eindhoven University of Technology research portal (tue.nl)
Download thesis: 20210901_Marin_hf.pdf (tue.nl)

 

 

Date
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Chair
prof.dr.ir. E.J.E. Cottaar
Location
TU/Eindhoven / Teams

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