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Titles of PhD projects currently undertaken with the fusion programme at Culham by students at various universities


Plasma physics

Modelling and interpretation of edge plasma phenomena in magnetically confined plasmas
Plasma Eruptions in the MAST and JET tokamaks
Effect of instabilities on fast ions in the MAST spherical tokamak
Modelling of JET Electron Cyclotron Emission Data
Electron thermal transport in the presence of global MHD modes and transport barriers in MAST Plasmas
Fast data analysis and real-time interpretation on MAST
Turbulence in tokamaks
Turbulence measurements in MAST
Link between the theory of explosive instabilities and ELM data from MAST
Influence of toroidal plasma rotation on small scale turbulence in a tokamak plasma
Influence of compressional Alfvén wave dynamics on small scale turbulence in a toroidal plasma
Electron Bernstein Waves in MAST
Study of momentum transport and ion temperatures on MAST
The impact of transient phenomena and their mitigation on the scrape off layer plasma in MAST
Numerical modelling of highly radiative tokamak plasmas
Gyrokinetic modelling of fast ion transport and Alfvén waves in fusion plasmas
Gyrokinetic turbulence simulations
Investigation of the transport properties of high pressure plasmas in MAST


Materials science

Material migration in the MAST tokamak
Modelling the effects of electronic excitations on radiation damage in insulating materials
Experimental investigation of microstructural evolution and embrittlement of candidate materials for fusion power plants
First principles modelling of dislocations in BCC metals
Modelling and control of the ductile brittle transition temperature shift in Eurofer97


Engineering & technology

Heat transfer in high heat flux nanofluid cooling
Health management for nuclear fusion neutral beam systems
Materials study for high heat flux applications within fusion research
Innovative vacuum leak testing techniques for fusion
Hypervapotrons: high heat flux components

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