Stability of Beta Limited Thermonuclear Burn.

Abstract

The burn stability of a thermonuclear reacting plasma is examined under the assumption that a burn equilibrium exists due to the rapid increase of loss rate with plasma beta once a critical beta value is exceeded. It is found that perturbations about equilibrium generally result in a rapidly damped exponential decay and a second slow root which can be either growing (unstable) or damped. In the case where the slow root is growing, the possibility that it can be stabilized by feedback control of the rate at which neutral gas is fed into the system is considered. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 28, 1980
Accession Number
ADA082298

Entities

People

  • Edward Ott
  • Wallace M. Manheimer

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alpha Particles
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Coefficients
  • Control Systems
  • Deuterium
  • Equations
  • Feedback
  • Instability
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Maryland
  • Military Research
  • Particles
  • Perturbations
  • Security
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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