Vorsitzende der Sitzung
Session 2 - Inertial Confinement Fusion 1: Session 2 - Inertial Confinement Fusion 1
- Kurt Schoenberg (HED@FAIR COLLABORATION)
The recent progress at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) has sparked fresh excitement around the topic of inertial fusion energy (IFE) [1–5]. However, significant advances are still required before the goal of practical fusion energy can be realised. In particular, while the recently achieved gain of 4 represents an unprecedented milestone [5], it is still short of the minimum value of > 50...
We present the results of the quasi-irrotational approximation developed to deal with the problem of the linear Rayleigh-Taylor instability in incompressible and immiscible non-ideal finite thickness media when the top surface of the layer is attached to a rigid wall, and extend them to the cases in which it is a free surface. These constitute two families of problems that allow for...
We present a unified theoretical and numerical framework for self-similar multi-shock implosions achieving ultra-high compression in a uniform solid spherical target. Extending the classical Guderley model to N-stacked, spherically converging shocks,we derive self-similar solutions and the scaling law for the final density. One-dimensional Lagrangian hydrodynamic simulations confirm this...
The demonstration of energy gain by nuclear fusion in the laboratory and its industrial utilization as an unlimited energy source has been a grand challenge for physicists and engineers for 70 years. This vision has shifted closer to reality after the successful demonstration of multi-megajoule energy yield from deuterium-tritium plasmas in indirectly driven inertial confinement fusion...