On the importance of minimizing “coast-time” in x-ray driven inertially confined fusion implosions
Abstract
By the time an inertially confined fusion (ICF) implosion has converged a factor of 20, its surface area has shrunk 400×, making it an inefficient x-ray energy absorber. So, ICF implosions are traditionally designed to have the laser drive shut off at a time, toff, well before bang-time, tBT, for a coast-time of tcoast = tBT – toff > 1 ns. High-foot implosions on NIF showed a strong dependence of many key ICF performance quantities on reduced coast-time (by extending the duration of laser power after the peak power is first reached), most notably stagnation pressure and fusion yield. Herein we show that the ablation pressure, pabl, which drives high-foot implosions, is essentially triangular in temporal shape, and that reducing tcoast boosts pabl by as much as ~2× prior to stagnation thus increasing fuel and hot-spot compression and implosion speed. One-dimensional simulations are used to track hydrodynamic characteristics for implosions with various coast-times and various assumed rates of hohlraum cooling after toff to illustrate how the late-time conditions exterior to the implosion can impact the fusion performance. A simple rocket model-like analytic theory demonstrates that reducing coast-time can lead to a ~15% higher implosion velocity because the reduction in x-raymore »
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1404843
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1378148
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-733576
Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X; TRN: US1703246
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 24; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION
Citation Formats
Hurricane, O. A., Kritcher, A., Callahan, D. A., Landen, O., Patel, P. K., Springer, P. T., Casey, D. T., Dewald, E. L., Dittrich, T. R., Doppner, T., Hinkel, D. E., Berzak Hopkins, L. F., Kline, J., Le Pape, S., Ma, T., MacPhee, A. G., Moore, A., Pak, A., Park, H. -S., Ralph, J., Salmonson, J. D., and Widmann, K. On the importance of minimizing “coast-time” in x-ray driven inertially confined fusion implosions. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4994856.
Hurricane, O. A., Kritcher, A., Callahan, D. A., Landen, O., Patel, P. K., Springer, P. T., Casey, D. T., Dewald, E. L., Dittrich, T. R., Doppner, T., Hinkel, D. E., Berzak Hopkins, L. F., Kline, J., Le Pape, S., Ma, T., MacPhee, A. G., Moore, A., Pak, A., Park, H. -S., Ralph, J., Salmonson, J. D., & Widmann, K. On the importance of minimizing “coast-time” in x-ray driven inertially confined fusion implosions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4994856
Hurricane, O. A., Kritcher, A., Callahan, D. A., Landen, O., Patel, P. K., Springer, P. T., Casey, D. T., Dewald, E. L., Dittrich, T. R., Doppner, T., Hinkel, D. E., Berzak Hopkins, L. F., Kline, J., Le Pape, S., Ma, T., MacPhee, A. G., Moore, A., Pak, A., Park, H. -S., Ralph, J., Salmonson, J. D., and Widmann, K. Fri .
"On the importance of minimizing “coast-time” in x-ray driven inertially confined fusion implosions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4994856. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1404843.
@article{osti_1404843,
title = {On the importance of minimizing “coast-time” in x-ray driven inertially confined fusion implosions},
author = {Hurricane, O. A. and Kritcher, A. and Callahan, D. A. and Landen, O. and Patel, P. K. and Springer, P. T. and Casey, D. T. and Dewald, E. L. and Dittrich, T. R. and Doppner, T. and Hinkel, D. E. and Berzak Hopkins, L. F. and Kline, J. and Le Pape, S. and Ma, T. and MacPhee, A. G. and Moore, A. and Pak, A. and Park, H. -S. and Ralph, J. and Salmonson, J. D. and Widmann, K.},
abstractNote = {By the time an inertially confined fusion (ICF) implosion has converged a factor of 20, its surface area has shrunk 400×, making it an inefficient x-ray energy absorber. So, ICF implosions are traditionally designed to have the laser drive shut off at a time, toff, well before bang-time, tBT, for a coast-time of tcoast = tBT – toff > 1 ns. High-foot implosions on NIF showed a strong dependence of many key ICF performance quantities on reduced coast-time (by extending the duration of laser power after the peak power is first reached), most notably stagnation pressure and fusion yield. Herein we show that the ablation pressure, pabl, which drives high-foot implosions, is essentially triangular in temporal shape, and that reducing tcoast boosts pabl by as much as ~2× prior to stagnation thus increasing fuel and hot-spot compression and implosion speed. One-dimensional simulations are used to track hydrodynamic characteristics for implosions with various coast-times and various assumed rates of hohlraum cooling after toff to illustrate how the late-time conditions exterior to the implosion can impact the fusion performance. A simple rocket model-like analytic theory demonstrates that reducing coast-time can lead to a ~15% higher implosion velocity because the reduction in x-ray absorption efficiency at late-time is somewhat compensated by small (~5%–10%) ablator mass remaining. Together with the increased ablation pressure, the additional implosion speed for short coast-time implosions can boost the stagnation pressure by ~2× as compared to a longer coast-time version of the same implosion. Four key dimensionless parameters are identified and we find that reducing coast-time to as little as 500 ps still provides some benefit. Lastly, we show how the high-foot implosion data is consistent with the above mentioned picture.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4994856},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 9,
volume = 24,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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