Precompression of matter during radiative energy transfer in a steady-state thermonuclear burn wave

It is shown that precompression of matter ahead of the thermonuclear burn wave front can occur in the central volume of a multilayer cylindrical system under conditions of radiative energy transfer outside the region of wave propagation. The degree of compression is sufficient for the development of a self-maintained wave of fusion reactions. Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 66, No. 12, 783–786 (25 December 1997)     

压缩氘氚球的热核燃烧特性研究

本文利用LARED-S程序模拟了等密度和等压力条件下压缩氘氚球的热核反应燃烧过程.对于等密度模型,模拟了两个具体算例,与国外计算结果进行了比较,验证了程序的可靠性.对于等压力模型,利用数值模拟给出了热核反应燃烧与压缩氘氚球初始状态之间的关系曲线,分析发现,氘氚装量、压力和主燃料密度的增加有利于提高热核反应放能和燃耗,中心热斑的温度和面密度分别达到70—80 MK和3—4 kg·m^-2时热核反应才有显著的放能,提高主燃料密度,可以适当放宽对中心热斑的点火要求.最后对实际点火靶进行了数值模拟并且与等压力模拟计算结果进行了比较分析.     

压缩氘氚球的热核燃烧特性研究

本文利用LARED-S程序模拟了等密度和等压力条件下压缩氘氚球的热核反应燃烧过程.对于等密度模型,模拟了两个具体算例,与国外计算结果进行了比较,验证了程序的可靠性.对于等压力模型,利用数值模拟给出了热核反应燃烧与压缩氘氚球初始状态之间的关系曲线,分析发现,氘氚装量、压力和主燃料密度的增加有利于提高热核反应放能和燃耗,中心热斑的温度和面密度分别达到70—80 MK和3—4 kg·m^-2时热核反应才有显著的放能,提高主燃料密度,可以适当放宽对中心热斑的点火要求.最后对实际点火靶进行了数值模拟并且与等压力模拟计算结果进行了比较分析. 关键词： 压缩氘氚球 等密度模型 等压力模型 热核反应聚变     

Investigation of preheating of laser thermonuclear targets

The preheating level of the thermonuclear fuel and of the gas-compressing shell is the main criterion of the target-compression efficiency in experiments on laserdriven thermonuclear fusion. This paper contains the result of investigations of electronic, radiative, and impact preheating in experiments on compression and heating of hlgh-aspect shell targets in the Del'fin-l laser-derived thermonuclear facility. A procedure, based on analysis of the epithermal emission of the plasma, is considered for measuring the target preheating by fast electrons. The radiative and impact preheating of compressing shells in DD gas are estimated. The results of the investigation demonstrate the high degree of adiabaticity of the compression of the thermonuclear fuel in experiments with the Del'fin-l facility.Nuclear Plasma Laboratory of the Lebedev Physics Institute. Translated from Preprint No. 3, Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1990.     

α粒子的慢化过程对D-T等离子体聚变燃烧的影响

在双温聚变燃烧点模型框架下，对比D-T等离子体聚变燃烧过程中α粒子能量逐步沉积与瞬时沉积两种描述的等离子体温度、离子数密度随时间的变化，在不同的密度条件下作了计算，考察了α粒子的慢化过程对D-T聚变点火的影响.发现考虑α粒子的慢化过程后，D-T等离子体峰值温度的出现将会推迟若干皮秒甚至几十皮秒，在较低的初始温度密度条件下，时间推迟得更多些.等离子体的峰值温度比α粒子能量瞬时沉积描述也会下降13keV左右. 关键词： α粒子 聚变燃烧 能量沉积 慢化过程     

Compression and combustion of non-cryogenic targets with a solid thermonuclear fuel for inertial fusion

Variants of a target with a solid thermonuclear fuel in the form of deuterium-tritium hydrides of light metals for an inertial fusion have been proposed. The laser-pulse-induced compression of non-cryogenic targets, as well as ignition and combustion of such targets, has been examined. The numerical calculations show that, despite a decrease in the caloric content of the fuel and an increase in the energy losses on intrinsic radiation in the target containing deuterium-tritium hydrides of light metals as compared to the target containing deuterium-tritium ice, the non-cryogenic target can ensure the fusion gain sufficient for its use in the energy cycle of a thermonuclear power plant based on the inertial plasma confinement method.     

Numerical studies of deuterium-tritium ignition in impact-fusiontargets

A numerical one-dimensional solution of the Euler equations for an imploding spherical tungsten shell with internal deuterium-tritium gas is applied to study impact-fusion dynamics with parameters of fusion-reactor relevance. Thermal conduction and radiative energy loss by the plasma are taken into account, as is heating by fusion-generated alpha particles. A variety of target sizes and impact velocities are examined, and scaling laws for fusion yields are deduced which define possible parameters for conceptual commercial impact-fusion power reactors. It is found that shell energies and velocities of about 30 MJ and 110 km/s would be satisfactory. A potential commercial impact-fusion reactor based on such parameters is discussed     

Energy deposition of fast α particles in a fully ionized deuterium-tritium plasma

An α particle transport equation has been solved analytically in one-dimensional spherical geometry when the plasma properties are uniform in space and time. The results agree well with earlier results.     

氘-氚中子源辐照旋转靶剂量演化模拟计算

首次将蒙特卡罗自动建模系统(MCAM)、蒙特卡罗粒子输运程序(MCNP)及自主研发的活化程序BURNDOT相结合,实现了中子输运、材料活化、光子输运模拟计算的耦合。对14MeV氘-氚(D-T)中子源旋转靶室剂量演化分析,计算了氘-氚中子源辐照旋转靶室的瞬发中子、γ三维辐射剂量场分布及连续辐照8小时后缓发γ剂量变化情况,并考察了材质、栅元、主要核素对缓发γ剂量贡献的影响,得到了旋转靶的剂量时空演化规律,把计算结果与欧洲活化程序FISPACT-2007进行了对比。     

热核聚变实验堆中超导母线绝缘层的红外热波检测

本项研究的目的在于探索热核聚变实验堆中超导母线绝缘层的主动式 红外热波检测方法.文中用装有热水的薄膜袋对预埋脱黏缺陷的试件表面进行接触热激励; 给出了在面热源作用下长圆柱内一维瞬态导热的近似理论模型;通 过对理论模型的模拟和分析,发现对热波降温信号进行微分处理可有效提高缺陷和 非缺陷信号对比度;与闪光灯激励的结果进行比较,显示接触热激励的检测深度优于 闪光灯脉冲热激励.     

Pattern formation in a reaction-diffusion-advection system with wave instability

In this paper, we show by means of numerical simulations how new patterns can emerge in a system with wave instability when a unidirectional advective flow (plug flow) is added to the system. First, we introduce a three variable model with one activator and two inhibitors with similar kinetics to those of the Oregonator model of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. For this model, we explore the type of patterns that can be obtained without advection, and then explore the effect of different velocities of the advective flow for different patterns. We observe standing waves, and with flow there is a transition from out of phase oscillations between neighboring units to in-phase oscillations with a doubling in frequency. Also mixed and clustered states are generated at higher velocities of the advective flow. There is also a regime of "waving Turing patterns" (quasi-stationary structures that come close and separate periodically), where low advective flow is able to stabilize the stationary Turing pattern. At higher velocities, superposition and interaction of patterns are observed. For both types of patterns, at high velocities of the advective field, the known flow distributed oscillations are observed.     

Energetic efficiency of laser thermonuclear targets with ablator shells made of beryllium materials: A comparative analysis

The energetic characteristics of the compression and burning of targets with beryllium and beryllium deuteride shells are compared. The characteristics considered include the hydrodynamic efficiency, the efficiency of energy transmission to the thermonuclear fuel, and the gain factor found from numerical simulation using the ‘Diana’ one-dimensional mathematical code. The calculations are carried out for direct-drive cryogenic laser targets with the ablator shells made of beryllium or beryllium deuteride with parameters corresponding to the third harmonic of energy of the neodymium-laser radiation with a pulse energy of 1–3 MJ. It is proved that the gain of beryllium hydride targets can be brought to the level of beryllium targets due to variations in the geometrical parameters of BeD₂ targets. It is shown that the fission of BeD₂ or BeDT ablators in reactor-scale targets could significantly contribute to the final thermonuclear yield. __________ Translated from Preprint No. 20 of the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow (2001).