On March, 1st the 3D-PSI group at UW Madison celebrates its 10th anniversary.
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Paper by Prof. O. Schmitz on comparative studies on Helium exhaust with RMP fields at TEXTOR (tokamak) and LHD (heliotron/stellarator) was selected as highlight for 2016 in the IoP journal Nuclear Fusion.
Successful Participation on APS-DPP 2023 annual meeting in Denver, CO!
2023-11-02: Successful Participation on APS-DPP annual meeting! On this year’s annual gathering of plasma and fusion scientists organized by the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics (APS-DPP), the 3DPSI group showed several major accomplishments …
Paper about Multiphysics Modeling of Impurity Transport for FNSF Startup Scenario with ERO2.0 was published!
The study titled “Multiphysics Modeling of Impurity Transport for FNSF Startup Scenario with ERO2.0” is focused on multiphysics modeling of the Fusion Nuclear Science Facility conceptualization study. The work is the first of its kind …
Paper Published About “Numerical error analysis of SOLPS-ITER simulations of EAST” by D. Boeyaert et al.
A new paper authored by Dieter Boeyaert et al., “Numerical error analysis of SOLPS-ITER simulations of EAST” , is published in Nuclear Fusion. Plasma edge simulations with codes like SOLPS-ITER are widely employed to interpret …
Congrats! Post-doctoral Researcher Mykola Ialovega won the 1st place Peoples’ Choice Poster Award at the 7th Annual Postdoctoral Symposium.
Post-doctoral Researcher Mykola Ialovega won the 1st place Peoples’ Choice Poster Award at the 7th Annual Postdoctoral Symposium organized by the Postdoctoral Association of the UW on Last Friday(09/23/2022). During the Symposium, He presented a …
Outreach Activity Plasma Academy in Summer 2022.
This summer the Plasma Academy program will be offered August 15th – 19th. Plasma Academy is a one week course that is meant to teach middle and high school teachers about plasma and equip them with curriculum to share with their students. We …
PhD Student Erik Flom was awarded 1st prize in the PhD student poster competition at the International Stellarator and Heliotron Workshop (ISHW) in Warsaw. Congratulations!
Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) organises its event entitled ISHW 2022 — 16 23rd International Stellarator-Heliotron Workshop to be held in Warsaw, Poland. It covers various areas of Physics including Plasma and Gas-discharge Physics, …
NSF funds our work on“Understanding of neutral particle physics to generate a helicon wave driven high density laboratory plasma” as NSF-CAREER award.
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Helicon plasma was successfully established in the new Madison AWAKE Prototype (MAP) device!
In the course of the last days, a one-year-long construction process has cumulated in the breakdown of a helicon plasma. This plasma state, driven by a specific radio-frequency wave that propagates in magnetized plasma, features …