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Mathematical modeling of the thermonuclear burning in DHe3 targets with D-T ignition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

V.A. Burtsev ,
S.Y. Gus'kov ,
V.B. Rozanov ,
D.V. Il'In ,
A.A. Levkovsky ,
V.E. Sherman ,
Y.N. Starbunov  and
N.V. Zmitrenko
V.A. Burtsev
Affiliation:
Efremov Scientific Research Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus, St. Petersburg 189631, Russia
S.Y. Gus'kov
Affiliation:
Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky Pr., Moscow, Russia
V.B. Rozanov
Affiliation:
Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky Pr., Moscow, Russia
D.V. Il'In
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Institute of Machine Building of St. Petersburg, Polustrovsky 14, St. Petersburg 195108, Russia
A.A. Levkovsky
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Institute of Machine Building of St. Petersburg, Polustrovsky 14, St. Petersburg 195108, Russia
V.E. Sherman
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Institute of Machine Building of St. Petersburg, Polustrovsky 14, St. Petersburg 195108, Russia
Y.N. Starbunov
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Institute of Machine Building of St. Petersburg, Polustrovsky 14, St. Petersburg 195108, Russia
N.V. Zmitrenko
Affiliation:
Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
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Abstract

It is shown that there is a principal possibility of effective burning with gain G > 200 of ecologically clean DHe3 fuel in reactor-type targets without increase of driver energy. The proper target consists of DHe3 fuel and a D-T ignitor with a central hot spark. Under proper conditions, the D-T burning wave reaches the DHe3 range with the temperature sufficient for ignition of DHe3 plasma. The simulation was carried out by means of TERA code based upon self-consistent solution of a kinetic equations system for products of primary and secondary thermonuclear reactions by the Monte Carlo method and a hydrodynamic equations system.

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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 669 - 677
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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