[Dear Professor Lu Zhou, hello, I am Professor Keriber from the Wendelstein 7-X laboratory. We met last year, I don't know if you still remember me.
[I am writing this letter for no other reason than to represent the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, all the scholars in the field of controllable nuclear fusion, and ITER to thank you.
[Actually, we completed the installation of the water-cooled divertor last month, but the final result wasn't as ideal as we expected.
[Fortunately, we received a review invitation from PRX. We redesigned the main control computer algorithm and adjusted the control scheme based on the mathematical model you provided. Then, a miraculous scene happened!
[You can't imagine how surprised we were. The ribbon plasma in orbit was at least 50% more stable than before!
[I believe that if we continue to improve the control scheme and improve the sensitivity of the current control unit of the ring coil, this number can be even higher. There is still a lot of room for improvement in your mathematical model. However, due to our limited technical conditions, we are unable to fully develop it for the time being.
[We will report on the improved algorithm at the next IAEA-Demo International Conference. If you are interested, I can help you get an invitation. Of course, if you don't have time to attend, you can also pay attention to the thesis information on the official website.
[In any case, I have to say thank you. I believe a lot of people have to say thank you as well …]
After reading the email, Lu Zhou had a strange expression on his face.
How could there be such a coincidence?
The reviewer is Professor Keriber?
However, when he thought about it, the controllable nuclear fusion field was only so big, and the Wendelstein 7-X laboratory focused on the stellarator research. Other than Professor Keriber, Lu Zhou couldn't think of a more suitable reviewer.
However, he heard that it wasn't easy to start a stellarator, and it burned money in milliseconds.
If that was the case, then this was probably the most expensive review ever since PRX was founded …
Suddenly, Jimmy walked over from the side of the lawn.
"What, Professor?"
"Nothing." Lu Zhou shook his head and put away his phone. He said, "I have something to do, so I have to go back. This is the last competition of your university career, do your best. "
"Of course!" Jimmy smiled brightly and continued in a joking tone, "I plan to bring back a trophy before graduation."
The drone club training continued. After bidding farewell to the club members, Lu Zhou returned to his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Just as he arrived at the office, Vera came in with a stack of documents.
When she saw that Lu Zhou was also here, the young girl's eyes immediately lit up and she reported to him.
"Professor, these are the resumes of the students entering next spring. I've printed them out for you."
Lu Zhou nodded. "Thank you for your hard work. Just leave it on my desk."
Speaking of which, it would be the end of the year in a few months.
If everything went according to plan, he would be drinking coffee while picking out a few good resumes from the pile of A4 papers. Then, he would conduct a video interview during tea time to decide who would be the "lucky one" to receive his offer.
But this year, he did not plan to recruit any new students.
Firstly, he was too busy.
Secondly, after this batch of students graduated, it was time for him to consider returning to China.
Vera said awkwardly, "Do you need me to sort it out for you?"
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "No need, I'll take some time to look at it myself."
"Okay then."
Seeing that Lu Zhou did not need help, Vera nodded and went back to her desk to do her own work.
Wei Wen was sitting nearby. He looked at the stack of resumes that Lu Zhou did not even touch. He suddenly asked, "You're not recruiting new students this year?"
Lu Zhou: "No, I can't."
Wei Wen nodded thoughtfully. He didn't say anything, but he understood something in his heart.
Looks like I have to hurry up with my graduation thesis …
Shaking his head, Wei Wen threw away the distracting thoughts and focused his energy back on the work at hand.
…
The latest PRX thesis caused a sensation in the plasma physics community.
Accurately speaking, it wasn't just the plasma physics community. The content of this thesis had spread to many fields, such as applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, and even hydrology and meteorology.
Prior to this, turbulence was recognized as a chaotic system, and plasma turbulence was one of the most complex turbulence problems.
Most scholars in related fields were surprised by Lu Zhou's thesis.
Because this was too unexpected.
In other words, if it wasn't for the fact that Lu Zhou solved the Millennium Prize Problem of the Navier – Stokes equations, if it wasn't for the fact that this discovery was made by a well-known scholar, most people would have thought that this was just an April Fool's joke.
Because the thesis contained a large number of complex mathematical methods, it was difficult for people without a foundation in differential geometry and partial differential equations to understand the thesis. Even if one had a good foundation in mathematics, they would still have to refer to Lu Zhou's L Manifold thesis that was previously published in Annual Mathematics.
However, when the people who were interested read the thesis and really understood the content, they were immediately shocked by the mathematical methods used in it.
Just like how half a century ago, Robert Kraichnan used a quantum field theory method to study the turbulence pulsating field energy equation that satisfied the Navier-Stokes equation. He completed the only self-consistent pulsating structure energy equation (DIA theory) based on the first principle of conservation of momentum, thus creating the "modern turbulence analysis theory".
In a sense, Lu Zhou's work was similar to Kraichnan's; in fact, it was even better.
No one had ever thought that the turbulence problem could be solved like this!
After the thesis was published, it caused quite a stir in the academic community in less than half a month.
In the latest issue of Physical Review Letters (PRL), Professor Dieter Hoffmann, an internationally renowned plasma physics expert and former dean of the School of Nuclear Physics and Science at the University of Technische Universität Darmstadt, was invited to write a review article. He expressed his opinion on the thesis that caused a stir in the academic community.
"… The ideas he used in building mathematical models are unique, but the theoretical tools he used aren't innovative. After all, his L Manifold was published in Annual Mathematics a few months ago, and it was later used to study the solution of the Navier – Stokes equation."
"Generally speaking, it is the job of physicists to extend mathematical methods to the field of physics. Once a reliable tool is created, it is only a matter of time before it is used in the right place.
"Without this thesis, a similar method would have appeared in five or ten years. The same scene should have happened five years ago, or even ten years later. "
"But now, he told us, and he brought this all forward by ten years."
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