Chapter 494 Are You Interested in Coming?

There was deafening applause in the lecture theater.

Exiting amidst applause, Lu Zhou stepped down from the lecture hall's podium.

At the door of the lecture theater, after he finished being interviewed by the media, Principal Wu Zhuohua walked over to him with several school leaders and professors.

With a warm smile on his face, President Wu greeted him and said, "Thank you, Professor Lu, for bringing this vivid speech to our students of Nanhua University!"

After hearing this, several students standing next to him felt a sudden stomachache.

Listening to the lecture from the beginning to the end, except for the beginning and the end, they didn't feel anything vivid at all.

Lu Zhou smiled and said modestly: "It's not vivid, it's just my personal understanding of controllable nuclear fusion research, as well as some high-density plasma research, the talk may be a bit boring."

At this time, a professor who was standing beside him, who didn't look very old, smiled and said, "Why is it boring? After listening to your lecture, I have benefited a lot."

Lu Zhou: "Excellent reputation, may I ask who you are?"

President Wu introduced: "This is Professor Li Changxia from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of Nanhua University."

Lu Zhou stretched out his right hand: "Hello, Professor Li."

"Hello, hello," Professor Li Changxia said with a smile on his face as he shook Lu Zhou's hand, "I've heard that Professor Lu is young and promising, but I didn't expect him to be younger than I imagined."

Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Isn't Professor Li the same?"

"Don't look at my hair is black, but I'm already thirty-five or sixteen years old," Professor Li joked with a smile

"Thirty-five years old is very young." After a pause, Lu Zhou continued, "Where is Professor Gong? I heard that he is the head of the Institute of Nuclear Physics."

Professor Li's expression was a little subtle, and he coughed lightly and said, "Professor Gong...he is no longer in the institute."

Lu Zhou: "Are you retired?"

Professor Li smiled embarrassedly, "That's not true, he is now the deputy mayor of Hengzhou and the chairman of the municipal committee of the Jiusan Society, and he is no longer involved in the affairs of the school."

It turned out that he went to politics.

Lu Zhou nodded clearly and continued to ask.

"Then who is in charge of the Institute of Nuclear Physics now?"

Professor Li nodded and said, "I am in charge now."

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou gave him a slightly surprised look.

Although it's not that I don't believe in Professor Li's ability, the research teams in colleges and universities with young and middle-aged professors as academic leaders are often not particularly good.

Because how much resources a scientific research team can win is often determined by the qualifications of the academic leaders themselves.

As if seeing the surprise on Lu Zhou's face, Principal Wu quickly said with a smile.

"Professor Li is a little young, but his ability is quite reliable. The stellarator project is a star scientific research project of our school. It is precisely because of the efforts of Professor Li that our Nanhua University can reach a cooperation with the Australian National University. Sign this H1 stellarator project."

Hearing Principal Wu brag about himself, Professor Li was somewhat embarrassed, and said modestly, "It's mainly due to Professor Gong."

"Please don't misunderstand, I don't believe in Professor Li's ability, but I feel a little surprised." Having said that, Lu Zhou looked at Professor Li Changxia and smiled, "If it is convenient, can you show me the Institute of Nuclear Physics? ?”

Professor Li immediately nodded and said, "Of course no problem! I'll take you there right away."

The Institute of Nuclear Physics is located in a quiet corner of the campus of Nanhua University.

It is worth mentioning that nuclear physics and nuclear engineering are two completely different directions. The latter is a strong major of Nanhua University, but the former is not so strong.

Therefore, the establishment of the entire institute is not long, and the scale is not very large, mainly based on the school's Department of Nuclear Physics and the two school-level research teams of "Nuclear Fusion and Plasma Physics" and "Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics". built on the basis.

Originally, President Wu planned to bring a team of school leaders to follow him, but Lu Zhou politely declined his proposal on the grounds that he "does not want to disturb the daily work of Nanhua University".

There are too many laymen following along, and it is not convenient to chat about many things.

Following Professor Li Changxia to the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lu Zhou briefly went around under his leadership, chatting about research in the frontier field of controllable nuclear fusion at home and abroad along the way.

Speaking of the progress of the ITER project, Professor Li Changxia was fascinated.

"Now the international research on controllable nuclear fusion technology has entered the fast track. According to the timetable of the ITER project, a commercial demonstration reactor is planned to be built in Paris in 2025. Our country also plans to build one, and the timetable is almost 2025. .If nothing else, controlled nuclear fusion technology may become the greatest technological breakthrough of this century."

Lu Zhou: "But it seems that you don't seem to be taken seriously?"

Li Changxia smiled a little embarrassedly: "Even if it's 2025, it's still in the future."

After walking around the institute, the two soon came to Professor Li's office.

A little tired from walking, Lu Zhou was not polite, so he sat down on the sofa in the office.

Li Changxia sat across from him, and at the same time ordered his doctoral students to pour two cups of tea.

"Speaking of which, I have never had the opportunity to visit you. I would like to ask you a few questions about plasma physics. Is it convenient for you?"

After taking a sip of tea, Lu Zhou smiled and said, "You don't need to be so polite, just ask."

Nodding his head, Professor Li said seriously: "When we researched the coupling process of ion cyclotron wave and plasma, we found that the coupling process of ion cyclotron wave and plasma is difficult to carry out well. Do you have any good solutions? ?”

After hearing this question, Lu Zhou thought for a moment before speaking.

"When I was in the pppl laboratory, I saw similar research. The paper should have been published in Physics Letters. I can't remember the specific issue, but you should be able to find it."

"If I remember correctly, according to the content stated in the paper, increasing the plasma density or scraping layer density in the central region, and reducing the density gradient in the parabolic region or exponential decay region should allow the ion cyclotron to better interact with the Plasma coupling. If you are not sure, you can try to numerically simulate the ion cyclotron coupling process with the plasma using the plasma plate model."

Professor Li nodded thoughtfully, and wrote down Lu Zhou's words in his notebook.

Lu Zhou said in a relaxed tone: "Is there any question?"

"Well, there is indeed a little more."

Seizing this opportunity, Professor Li Changxia asked Lu Zhou for all the theoretical problems he encountered in his research.

As for the parts that he could answer among these questions, Lu Zhou also answered them one by one.

Time passed by, and I just sat in the office for almost an hour.

After closing the notebook, Professor Li smiled embarrassedly: "Sorry, I have delayed you for so long."

Lu Zhou smiled indifferently, and said in a relaxed tone: "It's okay, through these discussions, I can also have some inspiration."

After a pause, he continued: "Speaking of which, how is the situation of H1-Heliac now? I went around the research institute, but I didn't see it."

When Lu Zhou asked about the H1 stellarator, Professor Li Changxia couldn't help showing embarrassment: "I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to see it now. The bidding for the supporting facilities project was completed last October, and it will probably be implemented this year."

"It's too slow," Lu Zhou shook his head, "I remember the project started in 2017."

"That's right," Professor Li sighed, with a somewhat helpless smile, "but there's no way. Professor Gong's sudden withdrawal from the project, plus the school's difficulties, otherwise we don't want to delay it for so long."

Looking around the office, Lu Zhou nodded thoughtfully.

After being silent for a while, he finally stated the purpose of today's trip.

"Speaking of which, the STAR stellarator research institute in Jinling is about to be completed."

Seeing the somewhat envious expression on Professor Li's face, he paused for a moment before throwing an olive branch.

"Interested in coming over?"