CANADA - UTIAS

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
INSTITUTE FOR AEROSPACE STUDIES

4925 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T6
URL:   http://www.utias.utoronto.ca

Professors
Haasz, Anthony A.	E-mail: aahaasz@utias.utoronto.ca
	Tel: +1 416 667 7734; Fax: +1 416 667 7925
Stangeby, Peter C.	E-mail: pcs@starfire.utias.utoronto.ca
	Tel: +1 416 667 7729; Fax: +1 416 667 7799
Senior Lecturer
Davis, James W.	E-mail: jwdavis@starfire.utias.utoronto.ca
Research Scientists
Elder, David	E-mail: david@starfire.utias.utoronto.ca
Macaulay-Newcombe, Rick	E-mail: rick@starfire.utias.utoronto.ca
Ph.D. Students
Lisgo, Steven	E-mail: steven@starfire.utias.utoronto.ca
Poon, Michael	E-mail: michael@starfire.utias.utoronto.ca
M.A.Sc. Students
Hamilton, Chris	E-mail: cliff@starfire.utias.utoronto.ca
McLean, Adam G.	E-mail: adam@starfire.utias.utoronto.ca
Schwanke, Peter	E-mail: schwanke@starfire.utias.utoronto.ca

Research activities:
Fusion research at UTIAS falls into two general categories: (i) laboratory simulation of plasma materials interactions, and (ii) interpretation of experiments performed on tokamaks elsewhere using computer modeling of the edge plasma.
The laboratory work focuses on interaction between the plasma edge and plasma-facing material surface interactions on Iter specific materials, namely, carbon, tungsten, and beryllium.

Processes studied include erosion (leading to plasma contamination and reduced lifetime of components), and hydrogen transport and retention (affecting fuel loss and inventory).

Experimental facilities include mass analyzed ion accelerators (single and dual beam), an H-permeation facility and a UHV tritium laboratory. Current studies on tokamaks include JET (UK/EU), DIII-D (General Atomics, US), Alcator C-Mod (MIT, US) and ASDEX-Upgrade (AUG, Germany).

The principal involvement with DIII-D, C-Mod, JET and AUG are based on the development and application of a suite of coupled edge codes, called 'OEDGE' (for Onion-Skin Model + EIRENE + DIVIMP for edge analysis). OSM codes are used to calculate the edge 'plasma background'. The Monte Carlo codes, EIRENE and DIVIMP, are used to calculate the neutral hydrogen and impurity particle behavior, respectively, in the edge plasma. The codes are coupled in a feedback mode.