低密度等离子体融断开关的粒子模拟研究

 采用2.5维柱坐标粒子模拟程序研究了低密度等离子体融断开关（PEOS）工作过程中的物理现象,介绍了计算模型的建立和复杂边界的算法处理。模拟结果表明,在PEOS导通电流的过程中,电流通道最初在等离子体的发生器端形成,并且随着导通时间的增大而向负载端漂移。离子的空间分布并没有明显的变化,当PEOS发生断路时,等离子体离子的密度会迅速降低,并最终导致PEOS阴极附近的等离子体的密度已接近为零,此时,阴极电子完全受磁场箍缩作用而不能到达阳极,PEOS完全断开。     

高密度等离子体融断开关融蚀现象的粒子模拟研究

 利用自行研制的2.5维全电磁柱坐标粒子模拟程序对高密度等离子体融断开关融断区域中的融蚀现象进行了模拟研究,详细地介绍了计算模型的建立以及复杂边界的算法处理。模拟结果表明在融断开关导通电流的最后阶段,由于磁压力、磁场渗透作用和非中性静电融蚀作用,在融断区域的阴极附近会形成一定宽度的真空鞘层。由于等离子体密度的下降以及初始真空鞘层的存在,使得即使只有较小的离子电流,融蚀机制也完全可以导致PEOS最终断开。     

大面积等离子体片密度分布分析

利用空心阴极放电产生了尺寸为60 cm× 60 cm× 2 cm的大面积等离子体面. 在实验室条件下对大面积等离子体片的密度分布进行了测量. 由于高压放电脉冲脉宽较短, 实验中改变了测量方法, 同时, 在中等磁场影响下, 为了得到真实的等离子体密度, 进行了必要的数值修正.在放电电流为1---6 A时, 测量了二维的电子密度分布. 另外, 测量并讨论了其他环境参数对等离子体密度的影响. 电子密度的分布情况对与微波波束切换相当重要. 由空心阴极增强型放电产生的大面积等离子体面具有反射X波段(8---12 GHz) 微波需要的足够稠密的电子密度和足够均匀的密度分布, 这是等离子体面在雷达系统中取代金属面板的有利条件.     

Radiation loss in a compound plasma system with high and low temperature regions

A code has been developed for calculating the non-coronal radiation of impurity in a compound plasma system which consists of high and low temperature regions. The radiation loss of impurity carbon in this system is calculated and analysed. The cooling rate in this system is smaller than that in a homogeneous plasma system due to the particle exchange between the two regions of the system. The volumetric radiation is much bigger in the low temperature region than in the high temperature region because of the relatively low temperature and high electron density, despite the much smaller volume.     

质子束尾波场中利用密度跃变实现电子捕获及加速的粒子模拟

 用2D3V粒子模拟程序研究了高能质子束驱动的尾波场加速电子的方案,及其在此方案中应用背景等离子体密度的跃变致使等离子体电子自注入加速相区的可能性。粒子模拟结果显示:密度跃变实现了电子的自注入,并且捕获的电子束处于加速相位,等离子体尾波场纵向电场对捕获的电子束起箍缩作用;捕获的电子束随着传输,表现为窄能谱分布;同时随着密度跃变大小的增大,可以增加等离子体电子的捕获。     

Energy loss of a fast-electron beam due to the excitation of collective oscillation in hot plasma

Energy loss due to a fast-electron beam interacting with the hot plasma at a high density is analysed theoretically. By splitting the particle density fluctuations into the individual part due to the random thermal motion of the individual electrons and the collective part due to plasma－wave excitation, we are concerned with the collective interaction of the relativistic plasma electrons resulting from the Coulomb interactions. Consequently, we derive the frequency of the hot plasma and the "Debye length" with the modification of the relativistic effect. And finally we calculate the energy loss of a fast-electron beam due to the excitation of collective oscillation in the hot plasma.     

等离子体融断开关磁场Hall渗透机制的模拟研究

 利用自行研制的2-1/2维全电磁柱坐标粒子模拟程序对等离子体融断开关磁场渗透机制进行了模拟研究。模拟结果表明在磁场Hall渗透机制特征长度远远小于等离子体离子的无碰撞趋肤深度的条件下,等离子体内部磁场渗透过程主要由电子流体运动的Hall项来控制。对于等离子体空间分布存在较大的密度梯度的物理问题,必须考虑二维空间特性对磁场渗透速度的影响。在磁场已渗透经过的等离子体区域中,等离子体呈现非电中性,离子受静电场的作用会加速运动到达阴极,最终形成真空鞘层。     

球形及柱形磁化等离子体靶中α粒子能量沉积率分析

基于单粒子理论模型及积分算法,编写了单粒子轨道数值模拟程序———ALFA,分析了柱形和球形两种边界位形磁化等离子体靶中非热α粒子通过库仑碰撞对D-T等离子体加热的能量沉积率。在均匀背景磁场及相同的D-T等离子体密度、温度条件下,柱形边界中非热α粒子能量沉积率比球形边界更高。在相同等离子体温度及密度条件下,α粒子的能量沉积率随磁场的增大而增大,但计算结果表明,磁场的有效作用区域存在明显的上下限值,当等离子体内磁场小于下限阈值时,磁场增加对α粒子能量沉积率的提高贡献不大,而且当等离子体内磁场超过上限阈值后,磁场再增加对提高α粒子能量沉积率的作用也不明显。对不同几何尺寸的磁化等离子体靶,磁场有效作用区域的上下限值不同,靶尺寸越大,相应的上下限阈值越小。提高等离子体密度,可增加α粒子能量沉积率,也能降低磁场有效作用区域的上下限阈值。     

Enhanced laser-induced plasma channels in air

Plasma is a significant medium in high-energy density physics since it can hardly be damaged. For some applications such as plasma based backward Raman amplification(BRA), uniform high-density and large-scale plasma channels are required. In the previous experiment, the plasma transverse diameter and density are 50–200 μm and 1–2 × 10~(19)cm~(-3),here we enhance them to 0.8 mm and 8 × 10~(19)cm~(-3), respectively. Moreover, the gradient plasma is investigated in our experiment. A proper plasma gradient can be obtained with suitable pulse energy and delay. The experimental results are useful for plasma physics and nonlinear optics.     

质子束在等离子体中传输的粒子模拟

用粒子模拟程序研究了长脉冲质子束在等离子体中的传输特性,模拟结果表明,等离子体可以明显改善质子束的空间传输特性,大尺度的等离子体相对于等离子体层可以实现较长距离的稳定传输。研究发现,在实现长距离传输时,等离子体波会对质子束密度有较大的调制作用,严重影响质子束的传输性质,同时通过优化束密度分布可以有效减弱等离子体波的激发,实现束较稳定的传输。     

有源等离子体在开放大气环境下的反应扩散过程研究

利用一维模型用数值模拟的方法,研究了低气压开放环境下大气等离子体在存在等离子体源的情况下的反应扩散过程.得到了考虑化学反应、扩散以及漂移共同作用下的大气等离子体的主要成分随等离子体注入流量的变化规律及一定流量情况下主要带电成分随时空的演化规律. 将数值模拟结果与一个近似解析公式相衔接,估计达到稳态时维持一定电子密度所需要的等离子体流量,可据此进一步估计所需功率. 关键词： 大气等离子体 等离子体源 数值模拟 反应扩散过程     

EAST装置等离子体放电位形快速识别研究

为了适应超导托卡马克装置EAST位形控制运行模式的需要，研究了等离子体放电位形快速识别算法，给出了等离子体放电位形重建的模拟计算结果，并与美国GA平衡反演程序EFIT计算的平衡结果进行了详细的误差对比分析.结果表明，通过外部磁测量和合适的电流剖面模型，并结合实时平衡重建算法可以快速地对EAST等离子体放电位形进行识别. 关键词： 托卡马克 等离子体 平衡重建 数值模拟     

Particle simulation on electron acceleration process by the laser ponderomotive force in inhomogeneous underdense plasma layers

The mechanism of electron ponderomotive acceleration due to increasing group velocity of laser pulse in inhomogeneous underdense plasma layers is studied by two-dimensional relativistic parallel particle-in-cell code. The electrons within the laser pulse move with it and can be strongly accelerated ponderomotively when the duration of laser pulse is much shorter than the duration of optimum condition for acceleration in the wake. The extra energy gain can be attributed to the change of laser group velocity. More high energy electrons are generated in the plasma layer with descending density profile than that with ascending density profile. The process and character of electron acceleration in three kinds of underdense plasma layers are presented and compared.     

辅助加热下HL-2A边界层等离子体数值模拟

以二维边界等离子体流体模拟代码B2.5为核心,编制适合于具有封闭偏滤器位形特征托卡马克的边界层网格划分代码和计算后处理代码.模拟分析HL-2A托卡马克有约3MW辅助加热功率时的边界等离子体特性.结果表明,偏滤器靶板前形成了致密低温等离子体,偏滤器运行于高再循环状态.     

HL-2A等离子体约束参数的实时确定

在HL-2A等离子体放电过程中，利用CF编码计算出的等离子体边界磁场，计算出Shafranov 积分S₁，S₂和S₃,再利用反磁磁通导出极向比压β_p，等离子体内自感l_i，等离子体磁轴的大半径R_m，等离子体的能量W_dia，能量约束时间τ_E；再用电流矩导出等离子体的电流中心(R_c,Z_c).实时确定这些量对于及时了解和改进装置的放电和改善等离子体性能很有意义. 关键词： 等离子体约束 Shafranov 积分     

高功率微波作用下等离子体中的雪崩效应研究

研究高功率微波作用下等离子体中的雪崩效应,对于研究等离子体防护技术具有重要意义.通过采用等离子体流体近似方法,建立等离子体中的波动方程、电子漂移-扩散方程和重物质传递方程,表征电磁波在等离子体中的传播以及等离子体内部带电粒子的变化情况,分析研究了高功率微波作用下雪崩效应的产生过程和变化规律.研究表明,入射电磁波功率决定了雪崩效应的产生;初始电子密度能够影响雪崩效应产生的时间;入射电磁波的激励作用初始表现为集聚效应,当激励能量积累到一定阈值时,雪崩效应才会产生;在雪崩效应产生过程中,等离子体内部电子密度的变化非常迅速并且比较复杂.雪崩效应产生后,等离子体内截止频率会远超过入射波频率,电磁波不能在等离子体中传播,从而起到防护高功率微波的效果.     

低能质子束在氢等离子体中的能损研究

实验测量了100 keV的质子束穿过部分电离氢等离子体靶后的能量损失. 等离子体靶由气体放电方式产生, 其自由电子密度在10¹⁶ cm^-3量级, 电子温度约1–2 eV, 维持时间在微秒量级. 研究结果表明: 质子束在等离子体靶中的能量损失与自由电子密度密切相关且明显大于在同密度条件下中性气体靶中的能量损失; 在自由电子密度达到峰值处, 通过实验结果计算得到此时的自由电子库仑对数约为10.8, 与理论计算结果符合较好, 该值比Bethe公式给出的中性气体靶中束缚电子库仑对数高4.3倍,相应的能损增强因子为2.9.     

Plasma density evolution in plasma opening switch obtained by a time-resolved sensitive He-Ne interferometer

To understand the formation process of vacuum gap in coaxial microsecond conduction time plasma opening switch (POS), we have made measurements of the line-integrated plasma density during switch operation using a time-resolved sensitive He-Ne interferometer. The conduction current and conduction time in experiments are about 120 kA and 1 μs, respectively. As a result, more than 85% of conduction current has been transferred to an inductive load with rise time of 130 ns. The radial dependence of the density is measured by changing the radial location of the line-of-sight for shots with the same nominal POS parameters. During the conduction phase, the line-integrated plasma density in POS increases at all radial locations over the gun-only case by further ionization of material injected from the guns. The current conduction is observed to cause a radial redistribution of the switch plasma. A vacuum gap forms rapidly in the plasma at 5.5 mm from the center conductor, which is consistent with the location where magnetic pressure is the largest, allowing current to be transferred from the POS to the load.     

Effect of shear equilibrium flow in Tokamak plasma on resistive wall modes

A code named LARWM with non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations in cylindrical model is used to describe the instability in Tokamak plasma surrounded by a conducting wall with finite resistivity. We mainly take three factors related to the shear equilibrium plasma flow into consideration to study the stabilizing effect of the shear flow on the resistive wall modes (RWMs). The three factors are the velocity amplitude of flow, the shear rate of flow on plasma surface, and the inertial energy of equilibrium plasma flow. In addition, a local shear plasma flow is also calculated by the LARWM code. Consequently, it is found that the inertial energy of the shear equilibrium plasma flow has an important role in the stabilization of the RWMs.     

Double layers in an inhomogeneous magnetized bi‐ion plasma

A simpler analytical approach is employed to obtain energy integral equation for a pseudo‐particle in a pseudo‐potential, which admits double layer (DL) solutions for the non‐linear low‐frequency electrostatic perturbations in non‐uniform plasma consisting of electrons and two kinds of ions. One of the ion species has field‐aligned shear flow and electrons are superthermal kappa distributed. This theoretical model is applied to the upper ionospheric oxygen‐dominated plasma that has small concentration of protons along with upward flow of oxygen ions. Under suitable boundary conditions, both rarefactive (density dip) and compressive (density hump) DLs are obtained solving energy integral equation using the plasma parameters of ionosphere around altitude of 800 km. The amplitude and width of the DLs depend upon the scale lengths of density and temperature gradients as well as on the ratio of equilibrium densities of oxygen and hydrogen.