Nuclear Fusion Technology

The groups has been active in research activities on nuclear fusion systems since more than 20 years. The focus of the studies, starting from the thermal-fluid-dynamics of superconducting magnets, has progressively expanded including the main component constituting the fusion reactor, in a multiphysics framework. More recently, an additional effort in the risk assessment of this concepts has been started with promising results.

Topics

• Superconducting magnets
  
• CFD analyses of fusion reactor components
  
• System-level modelling of tokamak reactors
  
• Plasma-wall interactions
  
• Fundamental plasma physics
  

  Theoretical-numerical analysis of fundamental processes in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.

  Fluid modelling of the microscopic physical effects for the investigation of instabilities and turbulence