February 2026 — Fusion-Power-Plant-Framework/bluemira: Delivered reliability and extensibility improvements for equilibrium analysis, focusing on LCFS/separatrix reliability and geometry parameterization extensibility. The changes provide more accurate simulations, faster workflows, and easier customization for designs.

November 2025 monthly summary for Fusion-Power-Plant-Framework/bluemira. Focused on delivering physics fidelity and material handling capabilities to accelerate design iterations for fusion reactor concepts. Implemented two key features in bluemira: Neutronics Model Enhancements and LAR Materials/Material Cache Enhancements, with explicit commits tracking progress and intent.

July 2025 monthly summary for ukaea/PROCESS: Delivered a detailed TF Coil Quench Protection System – Detailed Current Density Model, introducing advanced material property calculations for copper and Nb3Sn, accounting for temperature, magnetic field, residual resistance ratio, and neutron fluence. Updated documentation, added new input variables, and implemented comprehensive unit tests to validate accuracy and robustness. This work improves quench protection reliability, informs design decisions, and strengthens safety margins for TF coil performance.

June 2025: Implemented DOLFINx-integrated plotting for 2D meshes and equilibria, refactored plotting utilities, and stabilized boundary equilibrium calculations. Enhanced tests, tolerances, and plot labels to improve reliability and clarity for simulation visualization and validation.

May 2025 performance summary for bluemira: Delivered enhanced neutronics output calculations for blanket, divertor, and vacuum vessel power, with a refactored power loading function to support new outputs and improved data extraction from simulations. Added clear docstrings and documentation to support maintainability and onboarding of future features. No major bugs reported this month.

Summary for 2025-04: Delivered a new discrete coil shape calculator for TF coils in Fusion-Power-Plant-Framework/bluemira, introducing PrincetonDDiscrete, refactoring calculations, integrating with an iterative magnetostatic solver, and updating docs and examples. This work enables constant-tension TF coil shapes with a finite coil count, reducing design iteration time and improving calculation accuracy. The commit b99c01921e9f11616e660c30f915ad1a9d0ddcee implements the Constant tension TF coil shape procedure (#3640).