Fiona Wouters - Graduation Project at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching (Germany)
I’ve done my graduation project at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany, where I’ve stayed between June 2023 and February 2024. My work there consisted of the implementation of the avalanche source for kinetic relativistic electrons in the 3D magnetohydrodynamics code JOREK. During disruptions in tokamaks, the thermal energy of the plasma is very quickly lost, causing the resistivity of the plasma to increase. This leads to the decay of the plasma current, which, due to the plasma self-inductance, in