Thin Liquid Wall Behavior under Ife Cyclic Operation

Thermo Fluid Dynamics and Chamber Aerosol Behavior for Thin Liquid Wall under Ife Cyclic Operation

†University of California, San Diego, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and Center for Energy Research, EBU-II, Room 460, La Jolla, California 92093-0417 ‡Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Mechanical Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405 § University of Wisconsin, Fusion Technology Institute, 1500 Engineering Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1687 7University of Californ...

Chamber wall response to target implosion in inertial fusion reactors: new and critical assessments

The chamber walls in inertial fusion energy (IFE) reactors are exposed to harsh conditions following each target implosion. Key issues of the cyclic IFE operation include intense photon and ion deposition, wall thermal and hydrodynamic evolution, wall erosion and fatigue lifetime, and chamber clearing and evacuation to ensure desirable conditions prior to next target implosion. Several methods ...

Dry Chamber Wall Thermo-Mechanical Behavior and Lifetime under IFE Cyclic Energy Deposition

IFE chamber walls: requirements, design options, and synergy with MFE plasma facing components

The wall of inertial fusion energy (IFE) chambers faces demanding conditions. IFE operation is cyclic in nature and following each micro-explosion, the chamber wall is subjected to a large flux of photons, energetic particles and neutrons. Key requirements are that: (i) the chamber wall accommodates the cyclic energy deposition while providing the required lifetime, and (ii) that after each sho...

New critical assessments of chamber and wall response to target implosion in inertial fusion reactors

The chamber walls in inertial fusion energy (IFE) reactors are exposed to harsh conditions following each target implosion. Key issues of the cyclic IFE operation include intense photon and ion deposition, wall thermal and hydrodynamic evolution, wall erosion and fatigue lifetime, and chamber clearing and evacuation to ensure desirable conditions prior to next target implosion. Several methods ...