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Fusion energy: Progress, partnerships, and the path to deployment
Over the past decade, fusion energy has moved decisively from scientific aspiration toward a credible pathway to a new energy technology. Thanks to long-term federal support, we have significantly advanced our fundamental understanding of plasma physics—the behavior of the superheated gases at the heart of fusion devices. This knowledge will enable the creation and control of fusion fuel under conditions required for future power plants. Our progress is exemplified by breakthroughs at the National Ignition Facility and the Joint European Torus.
M. Trovato, P. Falsaperla, L. Reggiani
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 9 | September 2023 | Pages 2509-2525
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2199832
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Within the maximum entropy principle, we present a general theory able to describe in a dynamical context the transport properties of hot carriers in monolayer graphene under electric fields of arbitrary strength. Therefore, we obtain a closed extended hyperbolic system of hydrodynamic (HD) equations in which all the unknown constitutive functions are completely determined. In particular, we consider the different scattering mechanisms used in the literature in the kinetic approaches. The closed extended HD system is applied to monolayer graphene at 300 K and is validated by comparing numerical calculations with ensemble Monte Carlo simulations.