Magneto-Inertial Fusion and Powerful Plasma Installations (A Review)

Direct-drive inertial confinement fusion: A review

R. S. Craxton, K. S. Anderson, T. R. Boehly, V. N. Goncharov, D. R. Harding, J. P. Knauer, R. L. McCrory, P. W. McKenty, D. D. Meyerhofer, J. F. Myatt, A. J. Schmitt, J. D. Sethian, R. W. Short, S. Skupsky, W. Theobald, W. L. Kruer, K. Tanaka, R. Betti, T. J. B. Collins, J. A. Delettrez, S. X. Hu, J. A. Marozas, A. V. Maximov, D. T. Michel, P. B. Radha, S. P. Regan, T. C. Sangster, W. Seka, A. ...

Adaptive Fusion of Inertial Navigation System and Tracking Radar Data

Against the range-dependent accuracy of the tracking radar measurements including range, elevation and bearing angles, a new hybrid adaptive Kalman filter is proposed to enhance the performance of the radar aided strapdown inertial navigation system (INS/Radar). This filter involves the concept of residual-based adaptive estimation and adaptive fading Kalman filter and tunes dynamically the fil...

A review of Vlasov-Fokker-Planck numerical modeling of inertial confinement fusion plasma

0021-9991/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2011.09.028 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (A.G.R. Thomas) 1 Present address: University of California, Los Ang 2 Present address: Clarendon Laboratory, Universit 3 lasers.llnl.gov. 4 www-lmj.cea.fr/. The interaction of intense lasers with solid matter generates a hot plasma state that is well described by ...

Development of a GaAs Photoconductive Switch for the Magneto-Inertial Fusion Electrical Discharge System

Understanding fuel magnetization and mix using secondary nuclear reactions in magneto-inertial fusion.

Magnetizing the fuel in inertial confinement fusion relaxes ignition requirements by reducing thermal conductivity and changing the physics of burn product confinement. Diagnosing the level of fuel magnetization during burn is critical to understanding target performance in magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) implosions. In pure deuterium fusion plasma, 1.01 MeV tritons are emitted during deuterium-d...