In March 2021, The University of Manchester signed a 10 year collaboration agreement with the UKAEA, resulting in a £15M investment for two new research groups; Digital Engineering and Tritium. I lead the Digital Engineering group. The aim is to build a virtual garage where engineers can try out new designs for fusion reactors more quickly than building full-scale prototypes.
I am currently looking to fill an open PhD position in a project titled:
Advanced Virtual Design of 3D Printed Fusion Reactor Components
This is to continue recent work that uses X-ray tomography, high performance computing and finite element analysis to design the plasma facing wall of the ITER reactor. Recent related publications can be found below:
A Workshop will be Organized at Instute of Energy and Transport in Petten, the Netherlands, the 25 and 26th of November. The topic of the Workshop is "cross-cutting issues in structural materials R&D for future energy systems ". It will be organised around four cross-cutting issues:
This Creative Commons article in Fusion Engineering and Design investigates the thermal performance of a fusion power heat exchange component by analysing microstructures obtaiend using X-ray tomography. Simpleware software was used as part of an image-based modelling workflow that involved microstructurally faithful finite element analysis of how manufacturing defects affect performance.
Thanks to the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, The University of Manchester, Politecnico di Torino, Simpleware and NETZSCH.
I thought the following article might be of interest to some on this site.
A research position is now opening in the field of Computational Mechanics of granular materials, in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. This position should start between May and September 2010, and is a full-time fixed-term PostDoc position for 2 years (TVL E13).
The 8th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-8) will be held in Heidelberg, Germany, from 30th September to 5th October, 2007.
The Symposium will focus on all technical aspects of fusion nuclear technology (FNT) and other related disciplines...
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More than fifty years ago, people realized that we can use fusion for energy, but the problem remains where and how to keep a plasma of 100 million degrees centigrade.
For TOKAMAK, one of the approaches to use the fusion power, now comes the news: "On 21 November, Ministers from the seven ITER Parties came together to sign the agreement to establish the international Organization that will implement ITER."