Model card

Reactor 3D

Reduced digital twin — not a first-principles reactor prediction. A hybrid fluid-plasma + weighted-macro-particle model of a p-¹¹B reactor, run in the browser via the real reactor3d_core kernel.

No net-energy, reactor-performance or engineering-feasibility claim. Fidelity is reduced and labelled. Geometry is an abstract confinement box — never a fabrication drawing.

Fidelity levels

  • 3D-L0 — ideal energy-bin accounting
  • 3D-L1 — reduced per-cell 0-D plasma energy balance (default)
  • 3D-L2 — trajectory/field-map study (institutional, future)

Physics

  • Per-cell fluid densities/temperatures with a radial profile
  • Fusion rate R = n_p n_B ⟨σv⟩ (reactivity proxy)
  • Poisson fusion events → 3 alphas (simplified or distributed energies)
  • Boris pusher in analytic E/B fields; stopping/deposition
  • Modular detectors; DirectConvert end-region recovery

Equations

  • EQ-P11B-REACTIVITY, EQ-BREMS
  • EQ-BORIS (dp/dt = q(E+v×B))
  • EQ-ENERGY-LEDGER (residual accounting)

Numerical guards

  • Negative density/temperature detection
  • NaN/Inf trajectory detection
  • Alpha-energy residual tolerance (run flagged if exceeded)

Verification

  • Alpha-energy conservation to machine precision
  • Boris gyroradius r = mv/(qB) in uniform B
  • Seed determinism → reproducible run identity
  • Detector plane-intersection accuracy

Unsupported

  • Full plasma transport / turbulence
  • Real coil/electrode/vacuum engineering
  • Validated performance or net-energy

Status

  • External validation: Pending (WarpX/Geant4 truth runs, review)
  • Version: reactor3d_core 0.1.0
  • Reviewer state: unreviewed