Fusion Technology: Experiments with Digital Twinning

英国能源署正在调试位于罗瑟勒姆的GB 50米Chimera设施，在聚变反应堆内经历的条件下对原型部件进行液压和电磁测试。例如，为了进行参数设计和不确定性量化研究，生产数字孪生部件将是很重要的。数字双胞胎的构建和验证，特别是在经典流体湍流可能很严重的情况下，应该通过专门访问一组受控的桌面规模的实验来简化。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年秋季起，主设施将能够容纳这些“小实验室”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.