Numerical Experiments Providing New Insights into Plasma Focus Fusion Devices
Recent extensive and systematic numerical experiments have uncovered new insights into plasma focus fusion devices including the following: (1) a plasma current limitation effect, as device static inductance is reduced towards very small values; (2) scaling laws of neutron yield and soft x-ray yi...
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MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
2010
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/267/ http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/267/1/3.pdf |
| Summary: | Recent extensive and systematic numerical experiments have uncovered new
insights into plasma focus fusion devices including the following: (1) a plasma current
limitation effect, as device static inductance is reduced towards very small values;
(2) scaling laws of neutron yield and soft x-ray yield as functions of storage energies and
currents; (3) a global scaling law for neutron yield as a function of storage energy
combining experimental and numerical data showing that scaling deterioration has
probably been interpreted as neutron ‘saturation’; and (4) a fundamental cause of neutron
‘saturation’. The ground-breaking insights thus gained may completely change the
directions of plasma focus fusion research. |
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