A New UK Fusion Plasma Physics Programme at Warwick University

华威大学新的英国聚变等离子体物理项目

• 批准号: EP/D062837/1
• 负责人: Sandra Chapman
• 金额: $ 633.97万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FD062837%2F1
• 关键词: New; UK; Fusion; Plasma; Physics

The UK has recently become a net importer of energy. It is recognized that commercial fusion power development will provide an important strategic option for energy supply by mid century. Fusion is uniquely attractive because it does not rely on the conversion of fossil fuels to greenhouse gases, nor give rise to issues associated with the long term storage of nuclear waste. The physical principles underlying thermonuclear fusion in plasmas are also central to the UK's strategic defence science capabilities. The UK is a key stakeholder in the new generation of international fusion plasma research facilities. These include the magnetic confinement facility ITER, supported by six treaty partners: the EU, the USA, Russian Federation, Japan, the People's Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea. The Culham Science Center hosts the world's flagship magnetic fusion facility, JET, together with the pioneering MAST experiment. The UK's defence science needs in this field are met in part by the US National Ignition Facility (NIF, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and by the new laser facility ORION being initiated at Aldermaston. The UK Government endorses the Fast Track strategy for magnetic confinement fusion power development and is funding the new defence-related facilities.Fusion plasma research is central to the energy, environmental, and defence needs of UK PLC. In addition, contemporary fusion plasma research offers the attractions of a scientific grand challenge, combined with a new generation of advanced large scale international facilities. This proposal seeks to create a new centre of excellence in fusion plasma physics at Warwick, with strong links to the UK magnetic fusion programme at Culham. This will be a step change enhancement that builds on the successful interdisciplinary track record of the Warwick-Culham collaboration, whose work is supported both by EPSRC (primarily through Culham) and by PPARC (primarily through a rolling grant to Warwick). The project will be jointly directed by Prof Sandra Chapman (Warwick) and Prof Richard Dendy (Culham) who have an extensive record of joint scientific and managerial collaboration. To create a new group in fusion plasmas, Warwick would appoint a permanent academic in each of three fields of fusion plasma research: experimental plasma data interpretation and prediction; analytical theory; and computational plasma physics using high performance supercomputing (HPC), linked to the Warwick Centre for Scientific Computing (CSC). The initial scientific focus will be on collisionless, kinetic effects; these are a distinctive feature of fusion plasmas approaching the ignition regime. These appointments are designed to increase UK capacity in this field, and therefore must be attractive internationally as well as nationally. Warwick will therefore in addition undertake to advertise, and subsequently support, these permanent academic posts up to the level of Reader where merited by the quality of the candidate. Each academic will be assisted by two postdocs and a PhD project student. The appointment of up to six postdocs will provide a UK-based career development channel which does not at present exist: this is particularly timely given the recent surge in numbers of high quality UK PhDs in fusion plasma physics. Close engagement with the experimental programme at Culham (MAST and JET) will be developed, and it is expected that some appointees will, for example, participate actively in JET Task Forces.

英国最近已成为能源净进口国。人们认识到，到本世纪中叶，商业核聚变发电的发展将为能源供应提供一个重要的战略选择。核聚变具有独特的吸引力，因为它不依赖于将化石燃料转化为温室气体，也不会产生与核废料长期储存相关的问题。等离子体中热核融合的物理原理也是英国战略防御科学能力的核心。英国是新一代国际聚变等离子体研究设施的关键利益相关者。其中包括由欧盟、美国、俄罗斯联邦、日本、中华人民共和国和大韩民国六个条约伙伴支持的磁约束设施ITER。Culham科学中心拥有世界上最先进的磁聚变设备JET，以及开创性的MAST实验。英国在该领域的国防科学需求部分由位于劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室的美国国家点火设施（NIF）和正在奥尔德马斯顿启动的新激光设施ORION满足。英国政府支持磁约束核聚变发电发展的快车道战略，并正在为新的国防相关设施提供资金。聚变等离子体研究是英国PLC能源、环境和国防需求的核心。此外，当代核聚变等离子体研究提供了科学大挑战的吸引力，与新一代先进的大型国际设施相结合。该提案旨在在华威大学建立一个新的聚变等离子体物理卓越中心，与英国卡拉姆的磁聚变项目有密切联系。这将是建立在沃里克-卡勒姆合作成功的跨学科记录基础上的一个步骤变化增强，其工作得到了EPSRC（主要通过卡勒姆）和PPARC（主要通过对沃里克的滚动拨款）的支持。该项目将由Sandra Chapman教授（Warwick）和Richard Dendy教授（Culham）共同指导，他们在联合科学和管理合作方面有着广泛的记录。为了创建一个新的聚变等离子体研究小组，华威大学将在聚变等离子体研究的三个领域分别任命一名永久学者：实验等离子体数据解释和预测；分析理论;以及使用高性能超级计算（HPC）的计算等离子体物理，与华威科学计算中心（CSC）相连。最初的科学重点将放在无碰撞的动力学效应上；这是接近点火状态的聚变等离子体的一个显著特征。这些任命旨在提高英国在这一领域的能力，因此必须在国际和国内都具有吸引力。因此，华威还将承诺宣传并随后支持这些永久学术职位，直至候选人的质量符合读者水平。每位学者将由两名博士后和一名博士生协助。任命最多六名博士后将为英国提供一个目前不存在的职业发展渠道：考虑到最近高质量的英国聚变等离子体物理学博士人数激增，这是特别及时的。将发展与Culham实验方案（MAST和JET）的密切接触，预计一些被任命的人员将积极参加JET工作队。

项目成果

Decay-less kink oscillations in coronal loops

• DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322094
• 发表时间: 2013-12-01
• 期刊: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
• 影响因子: 6.5
• 作者: Anfinogentov, S.;Nistico, G.;Nakariakov, V. M.
• 通讯作者: Nakariakov, V. M.