Abstract
Building a fusion power plant: finding a balance of physics and engineering
Christopher Holland
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
This seminar will provide an overview of the competing constraints and requirements that plasma physics, nuclear physics, and materials science place on the design of a fusion power plant, and the current approaches used to balance these challenges. The first section of the talk will broadly follow the 2015 review paper by Freidberg et al. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4923266) for development of a tokamak-based power plant, although much of the approach is broadly generalizable to other confinement concepts. The second part will provide an overview of different computational approaches used to develop conceptual power plant designs, with an eye towards opportunities for multifidelity optimization and uncertainty quantification.
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