Tag-Teaming Turbulence

Tag-Teaming Turbulence

Researchers used the world’s fastest supercomputer for open science to train an artificial intelligence model that captures magnetic turbulence within a plasma in unprecedented detail. Results from the model, trained on the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, could support research ranging from modeling a supernova to building the…

Matt LakinApril 20, 2026

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New Clues to Improving Fusion Confinement

Nuclear fusion — when two nuclei combine to form a new nucleus, thereby releasing energy — may be the clean, reliable, limitless power source of the future. But first, scientists must learn how to control its production. Building on decades of prior research, scientists have developed sophisticated techniques to improve…

Coury TurczynJune 24, 2024

Science

Surprise finding: Discovering a previously unknown role for a source of magnetic fields

By John Greenwald, PPPL Magnetic forces ripple throughout the universe, from the fields surrounding planets to the gasses filling galaxies, and can be launched by a phenomenon called the Biermann battery effect. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found that this phenomenon…

Katie BetheaOctober 20, 2018

Science

Simulations of Plasma Turbulence Model the Inner Workings of Cosmic Phenomenon

Scientists from Germany’s HZDR–Dresden used Titan, the most powerful supercomputer in the United States located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to simulate billions of particles in two passing plasma jet streams.

OLCF Staff WriterNovember 11, 2013

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