Fusion - Interactive

About the project: For my final year project I investigated direct-drive inertial confinement fusion reactions with computer simulations. Inertial confinement fusion is a promising method for producing plentiful clean energy but currently faces several barriers including efficiency constraints.  The goal of the project was to improve the efficiency of the reactions, thus producing more energy (measured as 'gain').  Gain can be influenced by adjusting a multitude of variables and the optimum can be found by searching a multi-dimensional variable space. The figure shows how gain varies with two of these variables and is fully interactive.