Tobias Slade-Harajda
Ph.D.
Position: 3rd Year Ph.D. Student
Supervisors: Prof. Sandra Chapman & Prof. Richard Dendy
Contact: Tobias dot Slade-Harajda at warwick dot ac dot uk
Office: PS1.17
Ion Cyclotron Emission (ICE) is a strongly suprathermal emission brought on by instabilities within a fusion plasma. In its linear instability phase, the excitation mechanism for ICE is the magnetoacoustic cyclotron instability (MCI). As ICE is a passive diagnostic tool for fast ion physics, it is highly advantageous to apply knowledge gained from observing ICE to magnetically confined fusion (MCF) plasmas with the aim to improve tokamak efficiency and maintain the thermonuclear burn.
This project utilises HPC simulations to describe a minority energetic population of energetic (3.5MeV) alpha particles, and obtain spectra typical of ICE observations. Further work will look at simulating aneutronic fusion reactions to mitigate the ionisation of the tokamak inner wall, hence increasing the efficiency of tokamaks and their longevity.
Presentations
| Date | Talk/Poster | Name | Description |
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| 7th Mar 2024 | Talk & Poster | ARCHER2 | ARCHER2 (HPC) celebration of science event in Edinburgh. Short summary presentation on DT three ion work with a more detailed poster sessionLink opens in a new window to a range of STEM disciplines |
| 23rd Aug 2023 | Talk & Poster | FuseNet Conf. | PechaKucha and poster presented at the FuseNet Ph.D. conference in Lausanne Switzerland |
| 3rd Jul 2023 | Poster | EPS 2023 | Attended the EPS 2023 conference and presented a poster on my work on three ions in PIC code EPOCH |
| 19th Jun 2023 | Talk | CFSA Seminar | Updated the department on my Ph.D. progress thus-far |
| 17th May 2023 | Poster | PG Poster Presentation |
Presented a poster on simulations of three ions in a D-T fusion plasma to my peers and academics within physics |
| 29th Sep 2022 | Talk | PG Seminar |
Delivered a revised presentation to the physics PG group |
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18th Jul 2022 |
Talk | CFSA Seminar |
Detailed my project to the wider CFSA department |
Teaching
| Date | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2021 - June 2023 | Lab Demonstrator PX110/PX151 | Lead 1st year undergraduates in their experiments regarding simple harmonic motion, Newton's law of cooling and investigating helioseismology using Fourier transforms. |
Publications
(In progress) Ion cyclotron emission as a future diagnostic for reactivity in aneutronic fusion plasmas
(In progress) Parameter study in tritium concentration using the Linearised Maxwell Vlasov code
(In progress) The consequence of tritium mix in simulations of deuterium-tritium plasmas
Other
Oct 2022 - Wrote a reflective piece on the development of my teaching style, as viewed through Brookfield's four lenses, for the Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice (JPPP).
Masters
Obtained my MPhys (Physics w/ Astrophysics) in 2021 from the University of Exeter. My Supervisors were Prof. Sean Matt and Dr. Lewis Ireland. We worked on implementing a differential rotational profile at the star's surface using stellar wind model PLUTO, and measured its effect as a mechanism for torque down on a star.
Me, Nottingham, circa 2016
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ORCID iD : 0000-0002-4993-0757
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