Computer Simulation Experiments on Electrostatic-Inertial Confinement.

Abstract

The inertial confinement scheme is a proposed method of containing a hot, dense fusion plasma by purely electrostatic means, that is to say, without the use of externally applied rf fields or dc magnetic fields. The fusion gases are confined by the inertia of high energy beams of particles focused at the plasma from all sides. Although, as now conceived, the scheme involves the high energy injection of ions, it was originally thought of as a device i which electrons were injected with high energy. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0716860

Entities

People

  • Christopher W. Barnes

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Simulators
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • High Energy
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Particles
  • Simulations
  • Simulators

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics