Experimental and theoretical liner fusion studies
Conference
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OSTI ID:6849464
The two U.S. facilities currently engaged in imploding liner experimental programs have adopted contrasting approaches. In both, the liner implosion heats plasma by adiabatic compression. The NRL Linus concept uses a rotationally stabilized thick liquid metal liner hydrodynamically imploded at subsonic speeds, compressing a magnetically confined plasma, then rebounding without loss of integrity. The LASL Fast Liner experiment employs thin solid metal liners, electromagnetically imploded at supersonic speeds, compressng a wall-confined (..beta.. > 1) magnetically insulated plasma, with subsequent destruction of the liner. Results of recent experiments, theoretical liner dynamics and plasma physics calculations, and considerations relevant to reactor designs are presented.
- Research Organization:
- Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6849464
- Report Number(s):
- NRL-MR-3826; CONF-780811-31; IAEA-CN-37-E-5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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