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Simple Analytic Fusion Hot Spot Models for Fusion Reaction History

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Abstract

The measured fusion reaction history is a combination of the temporal evolution of the fusion hot spot temperature, mass and volume. Depending on the mechanism of evolution in inertial confinement fusion implosions- shocks, compression, convergence, mass ablation, ignition - the evolution of the reaction history varies. We derive and catalog a set of simplified inertial confinement fusion hot spot models with analytic solutions to infer the evolution of the fusion reaction history for each mechanism.

Publication: This work is submitted and under review in Physics of Plasmas

Presenters

  • Kevin D Meaney

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Authors

  • Kevin D Meaney

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Robert Dwyer

    Los Alamos National Lab

  • Brian Michael Haines

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Hermann Geppert-Kleinrath

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • John J Kuczek

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Ryan S Lester

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Joshua Paul Sauppe

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Yongho Kim

    Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)