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Design considerations for indirectly driven double shell capsules
- Source :
- Physics of Plasmas. 25:092706
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2018.
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Abstract
- Double shell capsules are predicted to ignite and burn at relatively low temperature (∼3 keV) via volume ignition and are a potential low-convergence path to substantial α-heating and possibly ignition at the National Ignition Facility. Double shells consist of a dense, high-Z pusher, which first shock heats and then performs work due to changes in pressure and volume (PdV work) on deuterium-tritium gas, bringing the entire fuel volume to high pressure thermonuclear conditions near implosion stagnation. The high-Z pusher is accelerated via a shock and subsequent compression of an intervening foam cushion by an ablatively driven low-Z outer shell. A broad capsule design parameter space exists due to the inherent flexibility of potential materials for the outer and inner shells and foam cushion. This is narrowed down by design physics choices and the ability to fabricate and assemble the separate pieces forming a double shell capsule. We describe the key physics for good double shell performance, the trade-offs in various design choices, and the challenges for capsule fabrication. Both 1D and 2D calculations from radiation-hydrodynamic simulations are presented.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Thermonuclear fusion
Shell (structure)
Implosion
Mechanics
Condensed Matter Physics
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
law.invention
Shock (mechanics)
Ignition system
Volume (thermodynamics)
Physics::Plasma Physics
law
0103 physical sciences
Cushion
010306 general physics
National Ignition Facility
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Details
- ISSN :
- 10897674 and 1070664X
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physics of Plasmas
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b2c212a90ad404a2b506b284a9db2db2
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5042478