The Physics of Inertial Fusion: BeamPlasma Interaction, Hydrodynamics, Hot Dense Matter
Stefano Atzeni and Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn
Abstract
The book is devoted to targets for nuclear fusion by inertial confinement and to the various branches of physics involved. It first discusses fusion reactions and general requirements for fusion energy production. It then introduces and illustrates the concept of inertial confinement fusion by spherical implosion, followed by detailed treatments of the physics of fusion ignition and burn, and of energy gain. The next part of the book is mostly devoted to the underlying physics involved in inertial fusion, and covers hydrodynamics, hydrodynamic stability, radiative transport and equations-of-st ... More
The book is devoted to targets for nuclear fusion by inertial confinement and to the various branches of physics involved. It first discusses fusion reactions and general requirements for fusion energy production. It then introduces and illustrates the concept of inertial confinement fusion by spherical implosion, followed by detailed treatments of the physics of fusion ignition and burn, and of energy gain. The next part of the book is mostly devoted to the underlying physics involved in inertial fusion, and covers hydrodynamics, hydrodynamic stability, radiative transport and equations-of-state of hot dense matter, laser and ion beam interaction with plasma. It discusses different approaches to inertial fusion (direct-drive by laser, indirect-drive by laser or ion beams), including recent developments in fast ignition. The goal of the book is to give an introduction to this subject, and also to provide practical results even when derived on the basis of simplified models.
Keywords:
nuclear fusion,
inertial confinement,
fusion reactions,
hydrodynamics,
hydrodynamic stability,
radiative transport,
hot dense matter,
laser plasma interaction,
ion beam plasma interaction,
fast ignition
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2004 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198562641 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2008 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198562641.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Stefano Atzeni, author
Dipartimento di Energetica, Università di Roma "La Sapienza" and INFM, Italy
Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn, author
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and Department of Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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