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Analytic criteria for shock ignition of fusion reactions in a central hot spot
- Source :
- Physics of Plasmas. 18:102702
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2011.
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Abstract
- Shock ignition is an inertial confinement fusion scheme where the ignition conditions are achieved in two steps. First, the DT shell is compressed at a low implosion velocity creating a central core at a low temperature and a high density. Then, a strong spherical converging shock is launched before the fuel stagnation time. It increases the central pressure and ignites the core. It is shown in this paper that this latter phase can be described analytically by using a self-similar solution to the equations of ideal hydrodynamics. A high and uniformly distributed pressure in the hot spot can be created thus providing favorable conditions for ignition. Analytic ignition criteria are obtained that relate the areal density of the compressed core with the shock velocity. The conclusions of the analytical model are confirmed in full hydrodynamic simulations.
- Subjects :
- Shock wave
Physics
Implosion
Hot spot (veterinary medicine)
Mechanics
Fusion power
Condensed Matter Physics
7. Clean energy
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
law.invention
Shock (mechanics)
Ignition system
Physics::Plasma Physics
law
0103 physical sciences
Nuclear fusion
Physics::Chemical Physics
Atomic physics
010306 general physics
Inertial confinement fusion
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Details
- ISSN :
- 10897674 and 1070664X
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physics of Plasmas
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ca8d7c268396865defd4def9f88879f4