Under extreme high heat flux and magnetic fields in confinement fusion, plasma-
facing-components (PFC) undergo extreme thermal, structural and chemical stress. 
Liquid PFCs on the other hand offer a viable solution in the heat flux extraction 
with Lithium (Li) as a viable alternative. While flowing Liquid Metal (LM) PFCs 
represent a transformative technology, it is still not well understood.
 
The project will use smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to simulate the 
instabilities on flowing liquid metal PFCs such as the divertor. The Lagrangian 
and mesh-free characteristics of SPH have dominated the field of free-surface 
flows where fragmentation of the free surface is present and are ideally suited to 
liquid metal PFCs.

The software for this work is our state-of-the-art open source multiphysics weakly 
compressible SPH solver DualSPHysics with GPU hardware acceleration, capable of 
simulation up to 100 million nodes per GPU. 

You are advised to contact Dr Georgios Fourtakas before applying for the PhD 
position with your CV attached to your email.