Jacob Schwartz Scientist & HTML fan
Research article: Valuing maintenance strategies for fusion plants as part of a future electricity grid
I’m happy to share that my article “Valuing Maintenance Strategies for Fusion Plants as Part of a Future Electricity Grid” has been published in the Journal of Fusion Energy. This paper explores how maintenance outages strategically timed with the seasons could be used to significantly reduce their impact on the value of the plant to the wider e... Read more 17 Feb 2026
Radial profiles of deposition in a cylinder
An infinite cylinder of radius $1$ is surrounded by a uniform, isotropic, collisionless gas of particles. When particles enter the cylinder region, they are absorbed with some mean free path $\lambda$. I provide an expression for the radial profile of absorption (deposition) intensity $i(\rho, \lambda)$ Read more 02 Nov 2024
Interpolating in log-log space is often nice
In nuclear and atomic physics it’s common to have data spanning many order of magnitude, like cross sections or reaction rates. If we want to plot, integrate, or generally do calculations on the data, we usually need an interpolation scheme to generate values between the existing data points. The interpolation scheme one chooses affects the accu... Read more 28 Sep 2024
Radial profiles of deposition in a disk: a tricky Taylor series
The previous post calculated the fraction of particles encountering a 2D disk which pass though the disk before being absorbed (deposited) with some mean free path $\lambda$. This post calculates the radial profile of the intensity of deposition in the disk: the number of particles are deposited per unit area at radius $0 \lt \rho \lt 1.$ Read more 20 Jul 2024
