Flexible Grids For Complex Tokamak Topologies

作为一名本科生，我在墨西哥城的Autónoma Metropolitana大学攻读了物理学学士学位，专业是等离子体物理。然后，我在巴黎攻读了一年物理学硕士学位，重点是模拟磁约束等离子体。在我的早年，我开始对聚变能量的想法着迷。现在，我正自豪地开始攻读博士学位，与彼得·希尔博士一起研究“用于复杂托卡马克拓扑的柔性网格”。被称为托卡马克的磁约束聚变设备是实现商业聚变最有前途的设备之一。他们的排气系统称为偏滤器，特别重要，因为该地区的复杂物理条件为聚变产生的核心设定了边界条件，从而最终产生了电力。先进的偏滤器设计，如“超X”和“雪花”偏滤器可能具有复杂的磁几何和拓扑结构，这使得模拟它们成为一项具有挑战性的任务。该项目的目标是通过开发和测试新的C++网格实现，适应和扩展世界领先的开源Bout++框架，以更好地处理先进的偏滤器设计。新的网格将被用来研究这些先进设计的形状对上游条件的影响，并将模拟结果与英国MAST-U托卡马克的实验结果进行比较。

As an undergraduate, I did a BSc in physics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City, specializing in plasma physics. I then did a year in Paris studying a master's in physics focused on simulating magnetically confined plasmas. Through my early years, I became fascinated with the idea of fusion energy. Now, I am proudly starting a PhD, researching "Flexible Grids For Complex Tokamak Topologies" with Dr. Peter Hill.Magnetically confined fusion devices called tokamaks are one of the most promising devices to achieve commercial fusion. Their exhaust systems, called divertors, are of particular importance as the complex physics in that region sets the boundary conditions "upstream" for the fusion-producing core, and so ultimately the power production. Advanced divertor designs, such as the "super-X" and "snowflake" divertors can have complex magnetic geometries and topologies which can make simulating them a challenging task.The project's objective is to adapt and extend the world-leading open-source BOUT++ framework to better handle advanced divertor designs by developing and testing a new mesh implementation in C++. The new mesh will then be used to study the effect of the shape of these advanced designs on the upstream conditions and compare simulations to experimental results from the UK's MAST-U tokamak.