Jacobi Varela, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

"Synergies between nuclear fusion, astrophysical and industrial plasmas: prospective challenges"

Abstract: The aim of this presentation is sharing a list of new research topics that connect different Plasma Physics fields. Nuclear fusion plasma studies will be dedicated to identifying the AE/EPM activity in several Stellarator and Tokamak devices, identifying optimization trends to improve the heating efficiency of external actuators as the NBI, ECH and ICRH, including both the linear and saturation phase of the AE/EPM. Astrophysical analysis will be dedicated to study the interaction of the stellar wind with exoplanets (with and without intrinsic magnetic fields) orbiting different stellar spectral types at different evolution times, including Sun-like stars, M and F stars as well as neutron stars. In addition, radio emission from exoplanets will be modeled and compared with radio telescopes observations. The model to study liquid metal ows dedicated to cooldown DCLL blanket in nuclear fusion reactors will be extended to improve the description of the heat transfer, identifying the optimized operation that maximize the heat removal and reduced the vorticity level and pipe erosion.