A genius? I just love studying.

Chapter 297 I Learned from Him?
Suddenly, the warning signal appeared again!
The plasma boundary parameters began to rise rapidly, indicating that a violent energy burst was brewing.

The atmosphere in the control room instantly became tense.

But in the very next second, Chen Hui's model screen popped up a prediction first.

[Prediction: A banded flow is forming, which is expected to suppress the ELM outbreak. The intensity is moderate. Countdown: 3, 2, 1]

Everyone stared intently at the main monitoring screen.

The parameter curve, which should have exploded violently, seemed to hit an invisible soft wall halfway through its run. Its momentum was cleverly sheared, dispersed, and absorbed by a quietly formed force from within the plasma.

The outbreak has been successfully contained!

The plasma resumed its stable operation, like a calm sea after a storm.

There was no explosion, no rupture.

Only the steady hum of the instrument and the two perfectly aligned curves on the screen—the green prediction line and the red data line—finally overlapped together in an unprecedented and elegant way, as if they were born as one.

The screen is no longer a chaotic mess, but a magnificent, self-restrained cosmic dance. The turbulence remains, but it is tamed by the order it generates.

A brief, unbelievable silence fell over the control room.

Immediately, a burst of enthusiastic cheers erupted!

The researchers excitedly high-fived each other in celebration.

Song Yuntao looked at Chen Hui beside him, his eyes filled with deep shock. In just three months, he had accomplished this feat. He had not only solved a calculation, but he had opened a crucial crack in the door for humanity's energy path to the stars!
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Southwestern Institute of Physics, Nuclear Industry

A burst of enthusiastic cheers erupted in the laboratory. After more than 300 days and nights, they had finally completed this arduous task: the liquid metal divertor.

Liu Yong couldn't suppress the urge to smile. After rejecting Mr. Qian, no one knew how much pressure he was under.

Especially when Chen Hui poached E Lao's men, it undoubtedly dealt him a heavy blow.

But now, all the hard work has been worthwhile, and all the pressure will eventually become his driving force. This success is undoubtedly a shot in the arm.

The divertor is one of the most technically challenging and urgently needed components in a tokamak device. It is known as the tokamak's "exhaust system" and "firewall," and its performance directly determines whether the device can operate safely, stably, and for a long time.

The divertor target plate directly bears the huge particle flow and heat flow, and faces extreme heat load, high-energy neutron irradiation, tritium retention and plasma erosion.

Therefore, instead of using solid target plates, they used a flowing liquid tin-lithium eutectic alloy as the surface of the divertor target plate.

The surface of liquid metal can be continuously replenished by flowing fluids, fundamentally eliminating the problems of melting, cracking, and radiation damage in solid materials. At the same time, the evaporation and ionization of liquid metal can effectively dissipate incident energy and also help control fuel circulation and detritonation.

Of course, using liquid metal as a target plate also faces many problems. The stability of liquid metal, how to prevent magnetohydrodynamic effects from pushing it away, sputtering contamination, and interaction with plasma are all very complex.

These problems are extremely difficult to solve, even on an international scale.

But they did it.

"Okay, everyone has worked hard these past few days. Everyone, hurry up and organize the data and materials. After that, everyone will have a three-day holiday."

Liu Yong, beaming, said that as a leading figure in China's controlled nuclear fusion research, he understood the significance of this breakthrough. In fact, he could say that with this breakthrough, they were now far ahead in controlled nuclear fusion research.

This is a small step for his personal scientific research, but a giant leap for China's controlled nuclear fusion cause!

"Long live Director Liu!"

Another round of enthusiastic cheers erupted in the laboratory. After more than a year of hard work, it was finally time to reap the rewards.

Looking at the cheering crowd, Liu Yong quietly left the laboratory.

"Director, this is truly a moment of triumph!"

Secretary Xiao Wang followed behind him, beaming, and said, "I heard that Professor Chen has been conducting experiments like crazy lately, and he's almost broken EAST apart."

"Three months have passed, and more than 100 million yuan has been spent, yet nothing has been achieved. Even if the higher-ups trust that person a lot, they won't let him run wild like this forever, will they?"

As Liu Yong's secretary, he knew a lot of the inside story and naturally felt indignant on Liu Yong's behalf. As researchers, what we hate most is an outsider directing an expert. You, who are doing theoretical mathematics, should just focus on studying plasma models instead of vying for the position of person in charge.

Since everyone here is doing research in this field, we are naturally intertwined. They will be the first to know about news from the Plasma Institute, and the news of their breakthrough in divertor technology will likely reach the Plasma Institute soon as well.

"And what about Elder E and the others? I really want to know how they will react when they receive this news."

The strong should ruthlessly humiliate the weak. Now that they have made such a great breakthrough, Secretary Wang naturally has to show his true colors.

"okay."

Liu Yong interrupted Xiao Wang, "Go and contact Song Yuntao and the others, and share our results with them."

The Plasma Institute is also conducting research on divertor improvements, including the use of liquid metal as divertor plates.

Although they are competitors, they are all from China and need to cooperate most of the time. He also understands that the successful improvement of the divertor alone is not enough to achieve the goal of commercializing controlled nuclear fusion.

Ultimate success is destined to be the result of a series of breakthroughs coming together.

Of course, he was also very interested in Song Yuntao and the others' reactions.

Back in his office, Liu Yong turned on his computer and described the results of the experiment in simple terms, sending a briefing to Professor Qian and his colleagues. Although the briefing didn't mention Chen Hui at all, the implication of sending it at this time was quite clear.

He wanted to tell Mr. Qian that his decision not to accept Chen Hui as the person in charge was the right one!
……

At the Plasma Research Institute, Professor E indeed learned of Liu Yong and his team's successful improvement of the divertor immediately.

“It’s really hard for them.”

E Weinan had also participated in this project and knew roughly about its progress. He knew that Liu Yong and his team were able to complete it so quickly not only because they found the right direction, but also because they had put in a lot of hard work.

Presumably, due to various events, he has come to regard Chen Hui as a competitor, which is why he is devoting all his time and energy to the research.

He could even imagine just how happy Liu Yong was right now.

Unfortunately, if he knew that Chen Hui's plasma model had been successful, I wonder what his reaction would be.

When E Weinan himself learned of this news, he was stunned for quite a while.

"Let's share our achievements with them as well."

Song Yuntao chuckled with a hint of amusement, returning the favor, but whether Liu Yong would be happy to hear this news was another matter.

He had attended that meeting with Liu Yong, so he naturally understood Liu Yong's feelings at that moment.

……

In Beijing, Professor Qian looked at the two briefings in his hands and laughed heartily. Chen Hui's ability to complete the task was within their expectations. After all, they weren't professional researchers; they only knew that Chen Hui was adept at creating miracles. So even though Chen Hui completed the plasma model construction in three months, they considered it a given.

But Liu Yong's success was a pleasant surprise.

"Although Liu Yong lacks a sense of the big picture, he is still a good comrade."

After giving his evaluation, Qian Xuesen began to reply to the two briefings, in which he spared no praise.

Now that two major problems in controlled nuclear fusion have been solved, he can clearly feel that he is getting closer and closer to that goal. Of course, the problems of the first wall material and the magnet system still need to be solved, otherwise the reactor will not be able to maintain operation for several years.

The next step was naturally to send Liu Yong and his team to the Plasma Research Institute to combine the strengths of both institutes and see what limits they could currently reach.

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Southwestern Institute of Physics, Nuclear Industry

Although it was a holiday today, Liu Yong still came to the office.

He turned on his computer, and sure enough, he saw Qian Lao's reply immediately.

Seeing the effusive praise in the replies, even someone as shrewd as Liu Yong couldn't help but smile.

But soon, he frowned.
"You want me to take my core team to the Plasma Research Institute?"

Liu Yong looked at Qian Lao's reply blankly, as if he had seen something out of the blue.

He understood that a large-scale project like controlled nuclear fusion could not be accomplished by their single research institute alone; cooperation was necessary. However, even if cooperation was required, it should be the people from the Plasma Institute who came to them to learn.

"Reversing the Heavenly Gang?"

"Are you kidding me?"

Liu Yong felt it was utterly absurd.

He knew that the higher-ups valued Chen Hui, but they couldn't be so biased, could they?

Of course, he still patiently looked back.

"A model of plasma motion in controlled nuclear fusion?"

"how is this possible?"

Liu Yong felt that his values ​​had been greatly impacted.

He knew that Chen Hui's mathematical achievements were probably unparalleled on the entire planet Earth. He also knew what the plasma motion model was. It wasn't just Chen Hui who had this idea; as early as when they discovered that plasma would produce turbulence, some people had thought of using Navier-Stokes' equations to solve this problem.

However, after decades of research, they have indeed made some progress in this area, but only slightly improved the duration of the reaction. It is simply impossible to completely avoid turbulence and solve the problem of plasma instability.

How long has Chen Hui been at the Plasma Institute?
Three months?
Did it solve a problem that mathematicians around the world had been unable to solve for decades?

Even if we're standing on the shoulders of giants, it can't be this outrageous, right?
Liu Yong's first reaction was that this was fake news, an academic scam perpetrated by the Plasma Institute to deceive its superiors.

But he also knew that Song Yuntao was not an idiot. If he really did that, it would be like a snake entering a bamboo cage, courting its own death.

A jumble of thoughts kept popping into Liu Yong's mind, making him feel like his head was about to explode.

It took him more than ten minutes to recover. After looking at the briefing again and confirming that he hadn't misread it, he shut down his computer, took out his phone, and bought a plane ticket to Hefei.

At the same time, he sent a work message to his colleagues who were still on vacation, naming several core members and asking them to go directly to the Plasma Institute after their vacation.

He originally planned to take his colleagues there, but considering everyone's hard work over the past year, he ultimately decided not to take away their vacation.

He planned to go and take a look by himself first.

"director?"

"Why should we be sent on a business trip to Hefei?"

"Even if the Plasma Institute wants to learn technology, they should be the ones coming to us to learn."

Although everyone was on vacation, quite a few people still saw Liu Yong's message and were filled with indignation.

Questioning one's superiors in this way is not a good thing, but Liu Yong didn't mind, because even if he knew that the other party had completed the construction of the plasma motion model, he would still have doubts.

Let alone these ordinary researchers.

"They've recently made a major breakthrough. I'll go check on things first. You all enjoy your vacation."

After giving a unified reply, Liu Yong ignored the messages in the group.

The researchers at the Southwest Institute of Physics of the Nuclear Industry were shocked.

A major breakthrough?

Since they were sent to the Plasma Research Institute instead of the other party coming to them, it means that the other party's breakthrough is more significant than theirs.

But what they accomplished was a revolutionary improvement to the divertor!

What breakthrough could possibly surpass theirs?

The core researchers, who were enjoying their vacation, suddenly couldn't sit still. One by one, they called the General Affairs Department and asked them to arrange the nearest flight to Hefei.

They wanted to see what kind of breakthrough the Plasma Institute had made!
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As March approaches, Yanbei University is becoming increasingly lively. Although many people believe this may be a trap, it cannot stop everyone's curiosity about proving the Riemann Hypothesis, and countless mathematicians are still flocking from all over the world.

After arriving at Yanbei University, these mathematicians toured the campus with great interest, and they were all very curious about what kind of environment had shaped a prodigy like Chen Hui.

The students of Yanbei University stood up straight, their faces full of pride and self-esteem.

Three days later, in the library auditorium,

Located on the basement floor of the library, this lecture hall has 152 sofa seats and is equipped with a VIP reception room and a simultaneous interpretation room. It is one of the highest-standard lecture halls at Yanbei University.

Especially when Chen Hui decided to conduct the report in Mandarin, the simultaneous interpretation room became indispensable.

Chen Hui was standing on the podium adjusting the equipment. Tian Yang, sitting in the first row, said with some dissatisfaction, "Why did you choose this place in the end? If you ask me, we should have gone to an indoor stadium and held it like a concert. Such a grand event should be as grand as possible."

The person in charge of the lecture hall standing to the side was both amused and exasperated. "Professor Tian, ​​this is the Riemann Hypothesis. Even if we go to the stadium and thousands or tens of thousands of people come, how many of them will actually understand it?"

Tian Yang was still somewhat dissatisfied, "Whether you understand it or not is not important, the atmosphere still needs to be created."

(End of this chapter)