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SUMMARY:Explosive Fluid Instability and Fusion Performance - Professor Sir
  Steven Cowley (Princeton Plasma Physics  Laboratory)
DTSTART:20181019T120000Z
DTEND:20181019T130000Z
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CONTACT:Amélie Lamarquette
DESCRIPTION:The conditions for fusion to occur in a plasma will be reviewe
 d. Fusion devices are plagued by kinetic plasma turbulence that convects h
 eat from the middle of the plasma to the walls. The best fusion performanc
 e is obtained when the turbulence is suppressed. Unfortunately when the ki
 netic plasma turbulence is suppressed the pressure builds until an explosi
 ve fluid (Magnetohydrodynamic) instability is triggered. I will describe t
 hese filamentary instabilities and their explosive nonlinear dynamics. Eff
 orts to find a soft pressure limit\, where the instabilities are not explo
 sive\, will be discussed.
LOCATION:JDB Seminar Room\, CUED
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