Simple Analytic Fusion Hot Spot Models for Fusion Reaction History
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Abstract
The measured fusion reaction history is a combination of the temporal evolution of the fusion hot spot temperature, mass and volume. Depending on the mechanism of evolution in inertial confinement fusion implosions- shocks, compression, convergence, mass ablation, ignition - the evolution of the reaction history varies. We derive and catalog a set of simplified inertial confinement fusion hot spot models with analytic solutions to infer the evolution of the fusion reaction history for each mechanism.
*This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy through the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by Triad National Security, LLC, for the National Nuclear Security Administration of U.S. Department of Energy (Contract No. 89233218CNA000001).
Publication: This work is submitted and under review in Physics of Plasmas
Presenters
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Kevin D Meaney
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)