Turbulent stagnation in a -pinch plasma
- Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
- Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel); Tri Alpha Energy Inc., Foothill Ranch, CA (United States)
- Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel); Applied Materials, Rehovot (Israel)
- Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
- H.I.T. - Holon Institute of Technology, Holon (Israel)
The ion kinetic energy in a stagnating plasma was previously determined by Kroupp et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett.107, 105001 (2011)] from Doppler-dominated line shapes augmented by measurements of plasma properties and assuming a uniform-plasma model. Notably, the energy was found to be dominantly stored in hydrodynamic flow. Here we advance a new description of this stagnation as supersonically turbulent. Such turbulence implies a nonuniform density distribution. Here, we demonstrate how to reanalyze the spectroscopic data consistent with the turbulent picture and show that this leads to better concordance of the overconstrained spectroscopic measurements, while also substantially lowering the inferred mean density.
- Research Organization:
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NA0003764; NA0001836; 67350-9960
- OSTI ID:
- 1467032
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1417064
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review E, Vol. 97, Issue 1; ISSN 2470-0045
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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