Compact toroid formation, compression, and acceleration
| Autor: | J.D. Beason, M.C. Scott, B. W. Mullins, James H. Degnan, Y.G. Chen, T.J. Englert, F.M. Lehr, J.D. Graham, Norman F. Roderick, S.E. Englert, Sean K. Coffey, Carl Sovinec, David Price, Wayne Sommars, M.E. Dearborn, J. H. Holmes, G. Bird, Melissa Douglas, G. J. Marklin, Edward L. Ruden, D. Dietz, D.E. Bell, Thomas W. Hussey, Peter J. Turchi, R.E. Peterkin, D. Gale, G.P. Baca, G.F. Kiuttu, K. E. Hackett, S. W. Seiler |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Physics Dense plasma focus Toroid Spheromak Compact toroid business.industry Computational Mechanics General Physics and Astronomy Magnetic confinement fusion Condensed Matter Physics Magnetic field Optics Physics::Plasma Physics Mechanics of Materials Physics::Accelerator Physics Coaxial Atomic physics business Inertial confinement fusion |
| Zdroj: | Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics. 5:2938-2958 |
| ISSN: | 0899-8221 |
| Popis: | Research on forming, compressing, and accelerating milligram‐range compact toroids using a meter diameter, two‐stage, puffed gas, magnetic field embedded coaxial plasma gun is described. The compact toroids that are studied are similar to spheromaks, but they are threaded by an inner conductor. This research effort, named marauder (Magnetically Accelerated Ring to Achieve Ultra‐high Directed Energy and Radiation), is not a magnetic confinement fusion program like most spheromak efforts. Rather, the ultimate goal of the present program is to compress toroids to high mass density and magnetic field intensity, and to accelerate the toroids to high speed. There are a variety of applications for compressed, accelerated toroids including fast opening switches, x‐radiation production, radio frequency (rf) compression, as well as charge‐neutral ion beam and inertial confinement fusion studies. Experiments performed to date to form and accelerate toroids have been diagnosed with magnetic probe arrays, laser interf... |
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