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Numerical Experiments Providing New Insights into Plasma Focus Fusion Devices

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  • Sing Lee

    (Institute for Plasma Focus Studies, 32 Oakpark Drive, Chadstone, VIC 3148, Australia
    INTI University College, 71800 Nilai, Malaysia
    Nanyang Technology University, National Institute of Education, Singapore 637616, Singapore)

  • Sor Heoh Saw

    (Institute for Plasma Focus Studies, 32 Oakpark Drive, Chadstone, VIC 3148, Australia
    INTI University College, 71800 Nilai, Malaysia)

Abstract

Recent extensive and systematic numerical experiments have uncovered new insights into plasma focus fusion devices including the following: (1) a plasma current limitation effect, as device static inductance is reduced towards very small values; (2) scaling laws of neutron yield and soft x-ray yield as functions of storage energies and currents; (3) a global scaling law for neutron yield as a function of storage energy combining experimental and numerical data showing that scaling deterioration has probably been interpreted as neutron ‘saturation’; and (4) a fundamental cause of neutron ‘saturation’. The ground-breaking insights thus gained may completely change the directions of plasma focus fusion research.

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  • Sing Lee & Sor Heoh Saw, 2010. "Numerical Experiments Providing New Insights into Plasma Focus Fusion Devices," Energies, MDPI, vol. 3(4), pages 1-27, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:3:y:2010:i:4:p:711-737:d:7884
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