Fusion Technology: Experiments with Digital Twinning

英国原子能机构（UKAEA）正在罗瑟勒姆（Rotherham）委托价值5000万英镑的CHIMERA设施，在聚变反应堆内部经历的条件下，对原型组件进行液压和电磁测试。例如，为了进行参数化设计和不确定性量化研究，生产组件的数字双胞胎将是很重要的。数字双胞胎的构建和验证，特别是在经典流体湍流可能很重要的地方，应该通过专门访问一组受控的桌面规模实验来缓解。CHIMERA将包括较小的补充设施，为主设施提供快速、灵活的支持，从2021年秋季开始，主设施将能够容纳这些“小型实验室”实验。

UKAEA is commissioning the £50M CHIMERA facility at Rotherham for hydraulic and electromagnetic tests on prototype components under the conditions experienced inside fusion reactors. It will be important to produce digital twins of components in order, for example, to conduct parametric design and uncertainty quantification studies. The construction and validation of digital twins, especially where classical fluid turbulence may be significant, should be eased by dedicated access to a set of controlled table-top-scale experiments. CHIMERA will include smaller complementary facilities providing rapid, agile support to the main facility, which will be able to accommodate these 'Smallab' experiments from Autumn 2021.