Adiabatic model and design of a translating field reversed configuration
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, M.S. E526, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
- Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 (United States)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
We apply an adiabatic evolution model to predict the behavior of a field reversed configuration (FRC) during decompression and translation, as well as during boundary compression. Semi-empirical scaling laws, which were developed and benchmarked primarily for collisionless FRCs, are expected to remain valid even for the collisional regime of FRX-L experiment. We use this approach to outline the design implications for FRX-L, the high density translated FRC experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A conical theta coil is used to accelerate the FRC to the largest practical velocity so it can enter a mirror bounded compression region, where it must be a suitable target for a magnetized target fusion (MTF) implosion. FRX-L provides the physics basis for the integrated MTF plasma compression experiment at the Shiva-Star pulsed power facility at Kirtland Air Force Research Laboratory, where the FRC will be compressed inside a flux conserving cylindrical shell.
- OSTI ID:
- 21120253
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 15, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2907165; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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