التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Demonstration of low-mode shape control in indirect-drive double shell implosions at the NIF. |
| المؤلفون: |
Mohamed, Z. L., Loomis, E. N., Robey, H. F., Goodarzi, S., Palaniyappan, S., Sacks, R., Sauppe, J. P., Sagert, I., Keiter, P. A., Schmidt, D. W., Donovan, P., Christiansen, N., Stark, D. J., Meyerhofer, D. D., Merritt, E. C., Montgomery, D. S., Xu, H. |
| المصدر: |
Physics of Plasmas; May2024, Vol. 31 Issue 5, p1-11, 11p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
INERTIAL confinement fusion, IMPLOSIONS, KINETIC energy |
| مستخلص: |
Double shell inertial confinement fusion is a concept for achieving robust thermonuclear burn that uses dense metal shells to compress deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel to fusion conditions. Double shell implosions are typically indirectly driven and involve a target that consists of a low-Z ablator, a foam layer, and a high-Z pusher surrounding the DT fuel. The goal of the campaign is to achieve a volumetric burn as radiation losses from the DT fuel are trapped by the opaque high-Z shell. The overall performance of double shell implosions relies on the efficient collisional transfer of kinetic energy between layers. The efficiency of this transfer (and therefore the overall performance of a given implosion) is degraded by the presence of low-mode asymmetries. P2 asymmetries are often observed in spatially resolved 2D radiographs of nominal double shell implosions. This work discusses three such experiments: one with an oblate P2 asymmetry, one with a prolate P2 asymmetry, and one with an approximate spherical symmetry. After performing a shape analysis of the oblate and prolate implosions to quantify asymmetries, these experimental results were compared with the results of hydrodynamic simulations for the two experiments. Differences between the experiment and simulation were then used to design an approximately spherical implosion by altering the incident laser cone fraction. Radiographs from the experiment that implemented the modified cone fraction show evidence of an implosion that is approximately spherical until bang time. This design is intended to serve as a point design for future studies that will seek to optimize various aspects of the double shell target. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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