Inertial electrostatic confinement and nuclear fusion in the interelectrode plasma of a nanosecond vacuum discharge. II: Particle-in-cell simulations

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (13) ◽  
pp. 1227-1234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu. K. Kurilenkov ◽  
V. P. Tarakanov ◽  
S. Yu. Gus’kov
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Fusion ◽  
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement ◽  
Vacuum Discharge ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Electrostatic Confinement

Oscillating ions under Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) based on nanosecond vacuum discharge

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (10) ◽  
pp. 952-960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu.K. Kurilenkov ◽  
V.P. Tarakanov ◽  
S.Yu. Gus'kov ◽  
A.V. Oginov ◽  
V.T. Karpukhin
Keyword(s):  
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement ◽  
Vacuum Discharge ◽  
Electrostatic Confinement

Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Plasma

2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 1211-1216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masami Ohnishi ◽  
Hodaka Osawa ◽  
Kiyoshi Yoshikawa ◽  
Kai Masuda ◽  
Yasushi Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement ◽  
Fusion Plasma ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Electrostatic Confinement ◽  
Confinement Fusion ◽  
Cell Simulation ◽  
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion

State of the Union

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Fumento
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Fusion ◽  
Magnetic Confinement ◽  
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
Electrostatic Confinement ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Many

Is fusion really the energy of the future? Michael Fumento explores some of the many false starts in the development of controlled nuclear fusion and considers its current prospects, including inertial and magnetic confinement, inertial electrostatic confinement, and compact reactors.

scholarly journals On the plasma quasineutrality under oscillatory confinement based on a nanosecond vacuum discharge

2021 ◽  
pp. 14-23
Author(s):  
Yurii Kurilenkov ◽  
Vladimir Tarakanov ◽  
Alexander Oginov ◽  
Sergei Gus’kov ◽  
Igor Samoylov
Keyword(s):  
Compression Ratio ◽  
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement ◽  
Discharge Axis ◽  
Vacuum Discharge ◽  
Ion Heating ◽  
Small Oscillations ◽  
Fusion Power ◽  
Aneutronic Fusion ◽  
Electrostatic Confinement ◽  
Fusion Scheme

One of the main problems for inertial electrostatic confinement devices with electron injection is the space charge neutralization. This work is devoted to the analysis of the problem of plasma quasineutrality in the scheme of plasma oscillatory confinement based on nanosecond vacuum discharge (NVD). Electrodynamics modeling of the processes of aneutronic fusion of proton–boron showed that the plasma in the NVD, and especially on the discharge axis, really corresponds to a quasineutral regime, which is rather different from the well-known scheme of periodically oscillating plasma spheres (POPS). In this case, small oscillations in the NVD are a mechanism of resonant ion heating, unlike coherent compressions in the original POPS model. The scaling of the fusion power turns out to be close to the fusion scheme with POPS, but differs significantly in the values of the parameter of quasineutrality and the compression ratio.

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