The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 242 Feasibility Verification

After Liu Cong brought the news, he left.

"So, in the end, we still have to build a smaller UO device first."

"Five months..."

Xiao Yi pondered for a moment, then stood up without thinking any more.

It's just a matter of waiting a few more months.

At this moment, this feeling is more like a battle.

"Then let's have a fight with Academician Chu first."

Then he called Li Jiangan and Zhao Zhanyou over and told them about this matter.

Li Jiangan nodded: "That's good, this is the only way to resolve the dispute now."

Zhao Zhanyou was very angry and started to complain: "Damn it, that Chu guy, he doesn't know how to distinguish right from wrong at his age, he doesn't have the ability and doesn't allow the capable people to do it."

Li Jiangan, who was standing next to him, slapped him and said, "Alright, stop talking nonsense here. Just talk about it in private. If it gets out, you'll suffer the consequences."

Zhao Zhanyou immediately covered his head and cried out, "So I'm just saying this in private! Just tell me if Chu Lansheng is looking for trouble!"

"Still talking back!"

Li Jiangan slapped him again.

Xiao Yi, who was standing next to him, shook his head as he watched this scene.

This is a teacher and student pair.

Then he didn't say much, just operated on the computer for a while, and finally pulled out a plan and showed it to Li Jiangan and others.

"This is the small UO verification device I have designed. Its overall construction plan has been given in detail."

Li Jiangan and Zhao Zhanyou, who were still arguing, were stunned when they heard this. "What do you mean you have already planned it?"

It seems that Xiao Yi had already realized that such a thing would happen and even prepared a plan for the verification device?
They all turned their heads and looked at the new plan given by Xiao Yi on the computer.

It is indeed a very small UO device, with an inner diameter of only about 0.85 meters, and the internal length of the entire U-shaped pipe is only about 5.89 meters long.

Moreover, Xiao Yi does not plan to use MHT-7 for this new device, nor will he add internal structures such as liquid lithium channels to it, so the overall construction difficulty is greatly reduced, which enables it to be completed in about five months.

"You...really come prepared."

Li Jiangan sighed.

Zhao Zhanyou also nodded. At this moment, he was more convinced of Xiao Yi's identity as the chief designer.

Such a chief designer is truly worthy of the title of chief designer.

Xiao Yi: "Okay, let's hold another general meeting and prepare for construction."

……

Soon, another general meeting began.

Xiao Yi announced the projects for the next few months.

This small UO device was simply named UOmini and was built right next to it.

As the news was announced, the researchers present all expressed their support.

After all, compared with the previous approach of building a large one directly without knowing whether the UO structure was feasible, it is obviously more convincing to first build a small device to verify the feasibility and then consider whether to build a large one based on the verification results.

In addition, Xiao Yi directly gave the overall construction plan, and these researchers stopped talking nonsense. After being in this project team for so long, they finally had work to do, so they were all full of enthusiasm.

The most important thing is that they also want to know whether this UO structure works!

Can their Chief Engineer Xiao continue to be correct in this matter and give Chu Lansheng a slap in the face?

Everyone is curious.

And just like that, time passed quickly.

In the next few months, although Xiao Yi was still very busy and traveled back and forth between several places, he was generally more relaxed.

After all, now is the construction stage, and in this stage basically just need to build according to the plan he gave at the beginning, and no one will make any mistakes during the construction process, that's all.

Even if some problems arise occasionally, he, as the chief designer, and Li Jiangan and Zhao Zhanyou will also supervise them.

Let’s put things here aside for now and go back to school.

In the new semester, Xiao Yi is responsible for the real analysis function of the sophomore Hua Luogeng class.

It is not the freshman class of Hua Luogeng that he taught last semester, which makes the students of the freshman class feel quite regretful. However, this is also because there are no classes that Xiao Yi can teach in the second semester of their freshman year. Basically, there are Mathematical Analysis 2, Advanced Algebra 2, and Geometry 2, which are all taught by their teachers from last semester.

Of course, the real analysis functions taught by Xiao Yi were still praised by all students.

Mathematics students have a deep understanding of how difficult real variable functions are. It’s just like the saying goes: learn real variable functions ten times.

Xiao Yi’s explanation of this lesson was profound and easy to understand. He was able to use a very simple method to allow students to clearly learn a concept and apply it proficiently.

Of course, Xiao Yi is not the owner of a teacher system and cannot directly help students increase their knowledge, so it ultimately depends on the students' own abilities.

But no matter what, after the midterm exam, all the students in Hua Luogeng's class passed and all scored at least 70 points. Compared with the students in Hua Luogeng's class who still failed this course, it is obvious that their overall level has improved a lot.

Of course, the most important thing is those students from ordinary professional classes who are not in Hua Luogeng's class but come to attend the class. According to statistics, those who often come to Xiao Yi's class have all got at least a passing score in the mid-term exam of real analysis, and those students who are relatively outstanding have all scored more than 90 points.

This immediately ignited the passion of mathematics students again, and more people came to listen to his lectures, even those in their third and fourth years came to attend his classes.

In addition, because the mathematics students of USTC spread the news, a large number of mathematics students from other universities began to gather to watch Xiao Yi's recorded video on real analysis.

Faced with the horrific failure rate of real analysis, these undergraduates were almost praying incense to Xiao Yi.

Of course, there are actually some students who do this by playing Xiao Yi’s lecture videos on their mobile phones, then lighting three incense sticks in front of them, bowing their heads and praying to Xiao Yi to bless them so that they can pass the exam safely.

Now, things like hanging Conan, hanging Kobe but not Conan, etc. are all too weak and far inferior to hanging Xiao Yi directly.

Some students even brought Xiao Yi's portrait to the classroom and asked Xiao Yi to sign it, saying that this would make it more effective.

Xiao Yi was so confused that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

All in all, before anyone knew it, the trend of hanging up Xiao Yi's name had become popular in colleges and universities across the country. It might be a little harder for other majors, but for majors like mathematics, physics, and materials science, Xiao Yi's face could be seen in almost every student dormitory.

However, what made this matter so popular was that it actually reduced the failure rate of related majors in major universities by the final exam of this semester.

The overall failure rate even dropped by several percentage points.

So much so that this matter once became a hot topic.

Many students on the Internet started discussing this matter. [Fuck, could it be that Xiao Shen is really the Wenquxing from heaven who has descended to earth and is now showing his spirit?]

[You are worthy of being my God Xiao. Just by praying to me, I can avoid failing the exam. I actually passed the real variable function test! ]

[Don't tell me, don't tell me. Normally, we were all in the same group when we studied electromagnetism. It was not until the day before the exam that we did something special and prayed to the God Xiao. Guess what happened? We all passed! Damn, if I had known that praying to the God Xiao was so effective, I would have prayed to him when I took the college entrance examination.]

[No, buddy, is what you said true or false? Why is it getting more and more outrageous? Is it really that amazing? ]

[It's so funny. Actually, if you ask me, I was really influenced by Xiao Yi. When I saw Xiao Yi's head portrait in the dormitory, I didn't dare to slack off anymore. I immediately took out the questions I hadn't finished and started to do them.]

[You are so right. I put Xiao Shen's head portrait on my desk. When I don't have classes, I just turn on the computer to play games. When I look up, I can see Xiao Shen's face. I feel guilty, as if I hear Xiao Shen telling me: "At your age, at your age, how can you afford to play games? Do you have any future? I won the Fields Medal when I was your age." Then what else can I say? I can only close the game quickly, take my schoolbag and go to the library to study. This semester, I barely got third place in the grade.]

[Oh my god, this is awesome! I’m going to start failing next semester too.]

【…】

With all the hot searches, orders from major stores that accept custom orders based on pictures are booming.

As for those stores that directly produce and sell in bulk, there are no such stores anymore. After all, this would constitute an infringement of portrait rights. Only the method of customizing according to pictures can avoid this to a certain extent.

Of course, if Xiao Yi really wanted to ban this kind of thing, it would be quite easy. With just one sentence, those shops would basically not be able to accept such orders anymore.

However, in the end he turned a blind eye and didn't care too much about it.

In addition, his three graduate students have been enrolled for almost a year.

The first stage of graduate school is coming to an end.

As for what Xiao Yi had said at the beginning, about writing a top-notch paper in the first year of graduate school, it ultimately did not happen to these three people. However, they did complete the tasks that Xiao Yi asked them to complete in that year, and they did a very good job.

In response, Xiao Yi also praised them.

However, when they enter their second year of graduate school, they will have to start preparing for their graduation thesis. Xiao Yi provided them with some suggestions on topic selection based on their past papers and their performance over the past year, but of course they can also choose on their own.

This summer, let them think for themselves.

And so, time came to the end of August.

Almost five months have passed, and the UOmini device has been completed.

……

"All parts have been checked and everything is normal inside."

"The heating equipment and superconducting coils have also been arranged and calibrated, and their positions are completely correct according to the design drawings."

"The fuel injection pipeline is also completely normal."

"..."

In the control room, Xiao Yi held a walkie-talkie in his hand, listening to reports from various groups.

"The final result will be revealed today, right?"

Next to him, Li Jiangan looked out the observation window at the structure that was completely different from the tokamak device, and sighed.

Xiao Yi nodded and said, "Once all the tests are completed, we can start."

Although the UO structure is different from the tokamak and stellarator, they are essentially magnetic confinement nuclear fusion, and the other devices used are not much different.

The most critical thing is how to confine the magnetic fluid and generate electricity.

"The magnetohydrodynamic generator has also been inspected."

The voice of the inspection team came from the intercom again.

At this time, Zhao Zhanyou came in with a phone. He looked unhappy. "I received a call from Director Cao of the Southwest Institute of Physics. He said that they have arrived in Fei City and want to visit our UOmini."

"Especially, that Chu Lansheng is here too."

Upon hearing this, Li Jiangan frowned.

"That old guy really came?"

Previously, Chu Lansheng said that when UOmini is launched, he will come to see the results in person.

And now he really came?
Zhao Zhanyou snorted coldly and said, "I think the old man can't sit still anymore and wants to see the UO structure with his own eyes."

He immediately asked Xiao Yi: "Old Xiao, should we let them in?"

Xiao Yi smiled and said, "Since they are here, let them come over. Isn't it a pleasure to have friends coming from afar?"

Zhao Zhanyou complained: "I don't think they came here as friends."

But despite this, he still made another call.

Not long after, a noisy sound was heard outside the control room.

Finally, a group of people came in, led by an old researcher who looked about the same age as Li Jiangan.

After the man came in, he first looked around, then stayed at Xiao Yi's face for a while, then turned to look at Li Jiangan and said, "Old Li, Old Li, it's been a long time since we last met. You can't do it now."

Li Jiangan didn't look happy when he saw this person. He snorted coldly, "Mr. Chu, what's wrong? Can't you sit still? Do you want to come and see if the UO structure can work?"

This old researcher is Chu Lansheng.

Chu Lansheng smiled and said slowly, "Oh, I forgot that you, Li Jiangan, are no longer the chief designer. I'd better talk to the chief designer."

Then he turned to look at Xiao Yi, stretched out his hand and said, "Hello, Chief Engineer Xiao. This is our first official meeting. Thank you for letting us in."

Xiao Yi smiled calmly, stretched out his hand and shook hands with Academician Chu, and said, "Hello, Academician Chu, I let you in, of course, to invite colleagues from the Institute of Western Physics to witness that magnetic confinement fusion is not limited to tokamaks and stellarators. There is a more perfect direction."

Chu Lansheng's smiling expression did not change, he just said: "Then I am looking forward to the result."

"The tokamak was invented by the Soviets, and the stellarator was invented by the Americans. Now if China can come up with a new nuclear fusion structure, it means that the Chinese have indeed reached a leading level in nuclear fusion."

But at this time, he changed the subject again: "However, Chief Engineer Xiao, even if your UO structure is successful, can it help our nuclear fusion to a higher level? We all know that materials are the biggest difficulty in nuclear fusion."

Xiao Yi said calmly: "Why not discuss this issue after the verification work is completed?"

Chu Lansheng stared at Xiao Yi for a while, and finally said: "Well, you are the chief architect, you have the final say here."

"I won't say anything. I'll just wait for the results here."

Afterwards, he really didn't say a word.

Xiao Yi clapped his hands, then said into the intercom: "All departments should now conduct the final inspection, and then we will officially start the ignition verification!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)