Kinetic effects of burn in magnetized and unmagnetized dense plasmas

Author

Appelbe, Brian ; Taylor, Shaun ; Chittenden, Jeremy

Author_Institution

Blackett Lab., Imperial Coll., London, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

8-13 July 2012

Abstract

The products of nuclear reactions in a plasma have high energies and non-Maxwellian distributions. These introduce difficulties when modeling burning plasmas. In this work we describe a suite of tools developed to include the effects of reaction products in computational models. In particular, we focus on alpha particle transport and heating and on neutron emission. Our goal is to accurately model these two species in 3D Gorgon simulations of NIF and MagLIF implosions.

Keywords

Z pinch; combustion; plasma chemistry; plasma density; plasma heating; plasma inertial confinement; plasma kinetic theory; plasma simulation; plasma transport processes; reaction kinetics; 3D Gorgon simulations; MagLIF implosions; NIF implosions; alpha particle heating; alpha particle transport; burning plasma; computational models; kinetic effects; magnetized dense plasma; neutron emission; nonMaxwellian distributions; nuclear reactions products; unmagnetized dense plasma; Alpha particles; Computational modeling; Heating; Laboratories; Neutrons; Plasmas; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2012 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2127-4

Electronic_ISBN

0730-9244

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2012.6383949

Filename

6383949