Magneto-inertial fusion

Magneto-inertial fusion is a type of fusion that combines both inertial and magnetic confinement methods to achieve fusion reactions. It involves the use of magnetized inertial fusion targets that are compressed and heated to create a plasma. Magneto-inertial fusion experiments rely on the compression and heating of magnetized plasmas to initiate fusion reactions.From: Lecture Notes on Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Equations [2019], Magnetothermodynamics in SSX: Measuring the Equations of State of a Compressible Magnetized Plasma [2019]

Magneto-inertial fusion systems

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Published in S. V. Ryzhkov, A. Yu. Chirkov, Alternative Fusion Fuels and Systems, 2018

S. V. Ryzhkov, A. Yu. Chirkov

Magneto–inertial fusion (MIF) is the original direction of inertial controlled thermonuclear fusion (CTF), based on magneto–inertial confinement of hot plasma [242–244]. A new scheme of MIF is the compression of magnetized plasma by powerful laser beams (laser-driven MIF) or high-speed plasma jets (plasma jet driven MIF) [55, 245–247]. In MIF, as in magnetized target fusion (MTF), a spherical or cylindrical plasma configuration is compressed in an external seeding magnetic field. In recent years, the very promising direction of CTF [249] has been actively developing, where a cylindrical metal liner is compressed under the action of a powerful Z-pinch, and a thermonuclear process in a hot compressed cord is initiated by a femtosecond laser.

Magnetothermodynamics in SSX: Measuring the Equations of State of a Compressible Magnetized Plasma

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Published in Fusion Science and Technology, 2019

M. R. Brown, M. Kaur

Magneto-inertial fusion experiments rely on the compression and heating of magnetized plasmas.9,10 The compression is often performed mechanically by either physically imploding a liner11 or collapsing a liquid metal wall.12 As such, the magnetic lifetime of the magnetized plasma state should be much longer than the mechanical implosion time. Recently, on a smaller scale (5-mm diameter), compression experiments were carried out at the magnetized liner inertial fusion experiment at Sandia. In these experiments, plasmas are heated in 100 ns from 100 eV to 4 keV, and magnetic fields are amplified from 10 to 1000 T (Refs. 13 and 14). Each of these experiments could benefit from a well-established EOS.

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