
MBG Auditorium
COLLOQUIUM: Excitement at the Plasma Boundary"
We now know how to heat plasmas to thermonuclear temperatures, and even how to confine the resulting hot plasmas to produce immense amounts of fusion power. The next major R&D challenge is to cope with these successes: How can we handle the heat flux that emerges from a fusion plasma and ultimately impinges on material surfaces? This heat flux is naturally focused spatially, and often temporally, amplifying the challenge.
We will overview 1) the magnitude of the heat-flux challenge, 2) scientific understanding of the underlying processes that control heat-flux focusing, and 3) possible solutions. A major conclusion is that the plasma boundary is a rich frontier for both scientific understanding and creative innovation.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 2019-2020 Colloquium Committee is comprised of the following people. Please feel free to contact them by e-mail regarding any possible speakers or topics for future colloquia.
Carol Ann Austin, caustin@pppl.gov
Marc-Andre DeLooz, mdelooz@pppl.gov
Erik Gilson, egilson@pppl.gov
Jessica Ilagan, jilagan@pppl.gov
Igor Kaganovich, ikaganov@pppl.gov
- Carol Ann Austin 609-243-2484
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory managed by Princeton University.
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