46th International Workshop on High Energy Density Physics with Intense Ion and Laser Beams

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...