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Sharpen Your Axes, Silicon Slingers! This Axe Throwing Day is a Bullseye for Innovation! First Strike: Luma AI unveils Dream Engine that conjures captivating videos from text and images. Second Swing: TORAX chops through the complexities of fusion simulation, accelerating the path to clean energy. So grab your virtual axes and slice into TORAX's cutting-edge research.
✴️ Torax: Taming The Tokamak ✴️
Harnessing fusion — the process powering the stars, promises a limitless clean energy source. But unlocking fusion's potential on Earth poses monumental challenges, like confining superhot plasma within powerful magnetic fields. Tackling these obstacles demands advanced computer simulations that accurately model the turbulent core of fusion reactors called tokamaks. Enter TORAX, a cutting-edge open-source simulator blending rapid computing speed with robust physics fidelity to steer tokamak modeling into an accelerated future.
⚡ Supercharging Simulations: TORAX solves the complex partial differential equations governing heat and particle transport in a tokamak plasma core. Capturing those processes demands integrating diverse physics components like turbulence models, magnetic geometry, heating sources, electric currents, and more. TORAX melds these components into a unified yet modular framework, allowing easy swapping — say, leveraging machine learning for turbulence modeling. Crucially, TORAX utilizes the JAX Python library for just-in-time compilation and automatic differentiation, supercharging simulations while retaining unique differentiability for optimization and sensitivity analysis.
⚛️ Tokamak Triumphs: Realizing fusion's clean energy dream hinges on cracking the code of plasma physics through advanced simulations. With its potent mix of blistering computation speeds, robust extensible physics integration, and unique differentiability, TORAX is revving up to power next-generation design, control, and optimization of fusion reactors. By harnessing TORAX's speed and flexibility, scientists can shift into a higher gear propelling fusion from fantasy to reality and harnessing star power here on Earth.
🥼 Researchers: Jonathan Citrin , Ian Goodfellow , Akhil Raju , Jeremy Chen , Jonas Degrave , Craig Donner , Federico Felici , Philippe Hamel , Andrea Huber, PMP , 👨🏻💻 Dmitry Nikulin , David Pfau , Brendan Tracey , Martin Riedmiller , and Pushmeet Kohli
❓True or False: Plasma in a tokamak is confined using electric fields. Let me know in the comments. ⤵️
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