RT Conference Proceedings
SR 00
A1 Ramis Abril, Rafael
A1 Temporal, Mauro
A1 Canaud, B.
A1 Brandon, V.
T1 Symmetry Issues in Directly Irradiated Targets
YR 2011
FD 12/09/2011 - 16/09/2011
AB In direct drive Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF), the typical laser beam to laser beam angle is around 30o. This fact makes the study of the irradiation symmetry agenuine 3D problem. In this paper we use the three dimensional version of the MULTI hydrocode to assess the symmetry of such ICF implosions. More specifically, we study a shock-ignition proposal for the Laser-M´egajoule facility (LMJ) in which two of the equatorial beam cones are used to implode and pre compress a spherical capsule (the “reference” capsule of HiPER project) made of 0.59 mg of pure Deuterium-Tritium mixture. The symmetry of this scheme is analysed and optimized to get a design inside the operating limits of LMJ. The studied configuration has been found essentially axial-symmetric, so that the use of 2D hydrocodes would be appropriate for this specific situation.
T2 7th Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications, IFSA 2011
ED Bordeaux-Lac, Francia
AV Published
LK http://oa.upm.es/12581/
UL http://www.ifsa11.org/