RR1.00001 Early Formation of Uranium Monoxide in Laser-Ablated Plasmas: Constraints on the Rate Coefficients from Ultrafast Spectrometry and Plasma-Chemistry Models

NW1.00029 Kinetic treatment of plasma-material interactions utilizing dynamically-coupled Boltzmann plasma and surface erosion model

SR1.00005 Large Scale Simulations of the Plasma-Material Interaction using Electrostatic Particle-in-Cell Code hPIC

FT2.00002 Student Excellence Award Finalist: 3D ion and neutral distribution measurements and simulations of the boundary region of a magnetized plasma

CURRELI GAINS DOE SCIDAC GRANT TO MODEL PLASMA-FACING COMPONENTS IN FUSION REACTORS

https://npre.illinois.edu/news/curreli-gains-doe-scidac-grant-model-plasma-facing-components-fusion-reactors

Oct 6, 2017 Technical meeting of the HBPS SciDAC project on Boundary Plasma Simulations, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

Oct 4-5, 2017 Kickoff meeting of the PSI2 SciDAC project on Plasma Surface Interactions, Argonne National Laboratory.

October 3 2017 Harry Radousky and David Weisz

List of LCPP contributions to the 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, October 23–27, 2017, Milwaukee, Wisconsin:

1. BP11.00086 Numerical Assessment of Plasma Parameters and Surface Flux Scaling in the HIDRA Stellarator
2. CP11.00026 Progress on the Development of the hPIC Particle-in-Cell Code
3. GP11.00143 Stabilization approach for an explicit hybrid particle-in-cell method for bridging multiple time-scales
4. JP11.00077 Direct comparison of neutral velocity distribution measurements and simulations in the vicinity of an absorbing boundary oblique to a magnetic field
5. TO6.00007 Latest results and developments from the Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications
6. TO6.00009 A model of early formation of uranium molecular oxides in laser-ablated plasmas
7. UO4.00001 Multi-physics modeling of plasma-material interactions
8. UO4.00003 Fast, Statistical Model of Surface Roughness for Ion-Solid Interaction Simulations and Efficient Code Coupling
9. UO4.00004 Calculations of Helium Bubble Evolution in the PISCES Experiments with Cluster Dynamics
10. UO4.00008 3D measurements and simulations of ion and neutral velocity distribution functions in a magnetized plasma boundary
11. UO4.00009 Validation of Boltzmann-Poisson Continuum Code with LIF measurements of Plasma Sheath in an Oblique Magnetic Field

NSF Award Announcement:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1740310

Presenting @ 3rd US-Japan Joint Institute for Fusion Theory Workshop on 
Innovations and co-designs of fusion simulations towards extreme scale computing.

August 7-8, 2017, 
Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kashiwa, Japan

The JNM paper on Fractal-Tridyn is now online:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002231151730301X

(also on arXiv: link)

“F-TRIDYN: A Binary Collision Approximation Code for Simulating Ion Interactions with Rough Surfaces” 

New Post-Doctoral Research Associate position available at LCPP