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Using fusion to track groundwater flows

April 11, 2023
Member news, DIFFER (The Netherlands)

PhD graduate Ricky van Kampen at DIFFER developed a smart and fast technique to determine parameters that describe transport processes. That let him predict how heat and particles spread through a fusion reactor, but also how polluted groundwater can flow into a river.

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Cover image for Ricky van Kampen’s PhD thesis frequency domain estimation of spatially varying transport coefficients. Copyright: Ricky van Kampen

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