The 3D-PSI group has a strong appearance on this year’s annual meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) of the American Physics Society (APS) in Portland, Oregon. Contributions are ranging from seminal advances in …
2018
Talk about first results from divertor heat flux control experiments at Wendelstein 7-X delivered on 2019 Fusion Energy Conference of the IAEA in Mahatma Mandir, India.
PhD Florian Effenberg, who just graduated in July of this year, has presented the results of his thesis and from very recent experiments developed and coordinated by him at the 2019 venue of the Fusion …
August issue of Nature Physics with title story on Wendelstein 7-X paper co-authored by UW Madison researchers.
The title story of the August 2018 issue of Nature Physics is based on a paper co-authored by personnel of the 3D-PSI group at UW Madison. In the paper by A. Dinklage et al. on “Magnetic Confinement …
Outreach activities on Plasma Physics commencing in Summer 2018.
Professor Schmitz has conceptualized in the past two years a number of outreach activities and these outreach activities are now commencing for the first time. The declared goal of this program in the K-12 education …
A paper comparing particle exhaust in the island divertors of W7-X and HSX published in Physics of Plasmas and selected as a monthly highlight.
A paper published in the AiP journal Physics of Plasmas by Dr. Laurie Stephey, a former PhD student at HSX, was selected as a monthly highlight. In this paper, a comprehensive comparison of particle transport and exhaust features of …
A numerical study explores the sensitivity of Small Angle Slot (SAS) divertor at DIII-D on toroidal asymmetries!
A paper published as a Letter in the IoP journal Nuclear Fusion this week by Dr. H. Frerichs studies for the first time the sensitivity of the Small Angle Slot (SAS) divertor at DIII-D on toroidal asymmetries. Such asymmetries can be …