Magnetohydrodynamic behavior of thermonuclear fuel in a preconditioned electron beam imploded target
作者:
I. R. Lindemuth,
M. M. Widner,
期刊:
Physics of Fluids(00319171)
(AIP Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 24,
issue 4
页码: 746-753
ISSN:0031-9171
年代: 1981
DOI:10.1063/1.863415
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Two‐dimensional magnetohydrodynamic numerical calculations have been performed to study the fuel behavior of a preconditioned relativistic electron beam target in which, experimentally, a portion of the beam current prepulse entered the target to provide fuel preheat and magneto‐thermoinsulation. The magnetohydrodynamic plasma model used includes radiation, thermal conduction, ionization, and resistive diffusion. The magnetohydrodynamic partial differential equations are solved by a computer code employing implicit finite‐difference methods. The fuel is shown to develop counter‐streaming vortices during the implosion phase. The computed neutron yield is in reasonable agreement with the experimental value, suggesting the origin of the neutrons to be thermonuclear. The effect of both magneto‐thermoinsulation and preheat is examined.
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