Numerical Experiments Providing New Insights into Plasma Focus Fusion Devices

Sing Lee and Sor Heoh Saw
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Sing Lee: Institute for Plasma Focus Studies, 32 Oakpark Drive, Chadstone, VIC 3148, Australia
Sor Heoh Saw: Institute for Plasma Focus Studies, 32 Oakpark Drive, Chadstone, VIC 3148, Australia

Energies, 2010, vol. 3, issue 4, 1-27

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: plasma focus; numerical experiments; scaling laws; neutron saturation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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