Interactive machine map explains the integrated modelling workflow
The blog now starts with a choice of MAST-U or ITER. The aim is to explain what integrated modelling solves to readers who have not studied fusion. Instead of starting with code names, each station asks a question: what holds the plasma, what heats it, where energy goes, and how those answers become a connected simulation.
Each station shows information in, the problem to solve, and information out. The machine drawings are schematic. Status labels keep the implemented links distinct from planned coupling and incomplete evidence. A small guard demonstration lets the reader change the conditions under which a fast model is used, without pretending to run a plasma simulation. Expandable physics panels give graduate readers the governing relations, exchanged variables, units and numerical assumptions without putting those details ahead of the overview.
The ITER evidence chart reads the existing public convergence CSV rather than drawing an invented trend. Its claim links retain the scope of C-305 and C-306. MAST-U keeps its computed equilibrium and its transport accuracy limitation visible together (C-019 and C-179).
| visual | evidence or scope |
|---|---|
| Machine map | schematic information flow |
| Guard switches | conceptual routing demonstration |
| ITER convergence chart | existing public CSV; C-305 and C-306 |
| Verification tiles | proved, unknown and outside-domain counts from C-326 |
The exporter generates chart evidence from the claim register, checks links, and scrubs the browser scripts for disclosure patterns. Focused checks cover evidence consistency and the interaction paths. These are software checks, not new physics validation.
The bounded research scope is unchanged. The owner approved publication of the landing-page update; the scientific limitations and detailed build log remain available.
Technical details → Interactive modelling explorer