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An Investigation into the Potential for the Development of a Tritium Production Industry to service Fusion Power Plants for Electricity and Industrial Heat Production (materials strand)
Supervisors: Professor Laurence G Williams OBE FREng (Bangor University), Dr Simon Middleburgh (Bangor University), Dr Mark Gilbert (UKAEA, Culham) & Dr Lee Packer (UKAEA, Culham). The current view of the...
The effect of hydrogen isotopes and helium on tritium diffusion and extraction from candidate fusion breeder blanket ceramics. (materials strand project)
Application deadline – Tuesday 5th July 2022. Supervisor/s: Amy Gandy (University of Sheffield), Rebecca Boston (University of Sheffield), Slava Kuksenko (UKAEA), Anthony Hollingsworth (UKAEA) & Mohamad Abdallah (UKAEA – STEP)....
Probing the plasma pressure limit in tokamaks (plasma strand project)
Supervisors: Professor Kieran Gibson (University of York) and Professor Howard Wilson (University of York) The fusion power output of a tokamak reactor, such as the experimental ITER facility or future...
Exploiting high repetition rate experiments in dynamic high-pressure physics (plasma strand project)
Supervisor/s: Andy Higginbotham (University of York) Dynamically driven high-pressure experiments allow us to reach pressure and temperature regimes inaccessible to traditional static compression platforms. These dynamic approaches allow us to...
Hot, dense matter creation via ultra-intense laser interaction with novel, structured targets (plasma strand project)
Supervisor: Kate Lancaster (University of York). The ability to heat high-density mid- to high-Z materials to temperatures of 100’s eV to a few KeV is critical for studies of warm/...
Exploring spectral energy transfer in non-linear gyrokinetic simulations and experiment (plasma strand project)
Supervisors: Dr David Dickinson (University of York) & Dr István Cziegler (University of York). Plasma turbulence acts to degrade the confinement of particles and energy in magnetic confinement devices, such...
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Coupling Particle In Cell with High-Order Finite Elements and Uncertainty Quantification (plasma strand project)
Supervisors: Peter Hill (University of York), David Dickinson (University of York) & James Cook (UKAEA). The edge region of tokamak devices is a crucial part of the plasma, as it...
Understanding the ablation of plasma facing components in Tokamak devices using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (plasma strand)
Supervisor/s – Dr Steven Lind, Dr Ben Rogers and Dr Jack King (University of Manchester) Divertor components in Tokamak devices are subjected to significant thermal loads, both in steady operation...
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Turbulence diagnosis using the Synthetic Aperture Microwave Imager (SAMI) (Plasma strand project)
Supervisor/s – Roddy Vann and David Dickinson (University of York) Turbulence is the chaotic motion of fluids observed across nature – and particularly in tokamak plasmas. Indeed, turbulence is the...
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Microwave heating & current drive on the MAST Upgrade Tokamak (plasma strand project)
Supervisor/s – Roddy Vann (University of York). Simon Freethy (UKAEA) and Alf Köhn (University of Stuttgart). Microwaves are the part of the electromagnetic spectrum with wavelengths approximately ranging from a...
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Science and Technology of Fusion Energy