• DocumentCode
    227371
  • Title

    Early time instability growth for MagLIF seeded by electro-thermal and material strength effects

  • Author

    Pecover, James ; Weinwurm, Marcus ; Chittenden, Jeremy

  • Author_Institution
    Imperial Coll. London, London, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    25-29 May 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    Magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) is a promising pathway to controlled thermonuclear fusion. The concept involves magnetically imploding a metal liner; a key limitation of such systems is the magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor (MRT) instability. MagLIF relevant liner implosions carried out by McBride et al [1] showed large amplitude MRT instability growth, requiring an azimuthally correlated seed to be added to simulations in order to achieve agreement.
  • Keywords
    Rayleigh-Taylor instability; fusion reactor materials; plasma inertial confinement; MagLIF; electrothermal instability; instability growth; liner implosions; magnetized liner inertial fusion; magnetoRayleigh-Taylor instability; metal liner; thermonuclear fusion; Educational institutions; Fusion reactors; Magnetomechanical effects; Materials; Metals; Surface waves; Temperature dependence;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Plasma Sciences (ICOPS) held with 2014 IEEE International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams (BEAMS), 2014 IEEE 41st International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-2711-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PLASMA.2014.7012331
  • Filename
    7012331