Numerical Experiments Providing New Insights into Plasma Focus Fusion Devices

作者：Lee Sing^*; Saw Sor Heoh

来源：Energies, 2010, 3(4): 711-737.

DOI：10.3390/en3040711

• plasma focus
• numerical experiments
• scaling laws
• neutron saturation

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.

• 出版日期2010-4
• 单位南阳理工学院