Target inserter ablation studies for ICF reactors

Author

Parks, P.B. ; Stephens, R.B. ; Peterson, R.R. ; Moses, G.A.

Author_Institution

Gen. Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

19-22 May 1997

Firstpage

169

Abstract

Summary form only given. BUCKY1 is a flexible 1-D Lagrangian radiation-hydrodynamics code that can simulate a variety of high-density ICF plasma conditions in planar, cylindrical, or spherical geometries. At GA we are using BUCKY1 to simulate the response of the conically-shaped target inserter (TI) located inside the target chamber of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to the time- and energy-dependent X-ray spectrum from a 20 MJ hohlraum target.

Keywords

X-ray spectra; fusion reactor ignition; laser ablation; plasma diagnostics; plasma inertial confinement; plasma production by laser; plasma simulation; BUCKY1; ICF reactors; conically-shaped target inserter; cylindrical geometry; energy-dependent X-ray spectrum; flexible 1D Lagrangian radiation-hydrodynamics code; high-density ICF plasma conditions; hohlraum target; planar geometry; simulation; spherical geometry; target inserter ablation studies; time-dependent X-ray spectrum; Atomic measurements; Electrons; Hydrodynamics; Inductors; Lagrangian functions; Plasma applications; Plasma simulation; Plasma temperature; Plasma x-ray sources; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 1997. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3990-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.1997.604493

Filename

604493