COMPASS Upgrade is a new medium size, high magnetic field tokamak (R = 0.9 m, Bt 5 T, Ip 2 MA) currently under design in the Czech Republic. It will provide unique capabilities for addressing some of key challenges plasma exhaust physics, advanced confinement modes and configurations as well testing facing materials liquid metal divertor concepts. This paper contains an overview preliminary eng...

Organizations usually strive for innovation to achieve economic growth. Thereby, incremental innovation of e.g., existing products is often the most attractive way because it is plannable to a certain extent and often reveals short-term success. However, many markets change due to new competitive structures caused by the rise of digital services, which facilitates market entries of new companie...

Abstract This paper present the results of our project to develop preliminary design a jet trainer plane (JTP) with two-person crew, base version which is intended for cadet training. We first consider assumptions and requirements new aircraft, review parameters existing aircraft designs in similarly-purposed class. Next we argue certain choices, regarding layout, cockpit configuration, wing lo...