Description of need
This software should be flexible, modular, and work on modern computer architectures. It should also be expandable.
According to Theresa Wilks, I would be appalled by some of the code that plasma scientists run. You need apprenticeship to learn how to use these codes.
Problem severity (1-10)
6
Who has this need
Nuclear fusion industry
Total addressable market (TAM)
Solutions today, and their shortcomings
- OMFIT is an open-source, integrated modeling framework developed by an ex-MIT person (Orso Meneghini) at General Atomics. He is working closely with ITER. You can deploy simulations locally or on remote servers. It is mostly a Python wrapper on the old codes.