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The formation of high-density core plasma in non-spherical implosion using high-resolution two-dimensional integrated implosion code

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2006

H. NAGATOMO
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamadaoka Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
T. JOHZAKI
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamadaoka Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
A. SUNAHARA
Affiliation:
Institute for Laser Technology, 2-6 Yamadaoka Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
K. MIMA
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamadaoka Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Fast ignition is an epoch-making scheme for inertial fusion energy. In this scheme, the formation of high-density core plasma is one of the key issues which must be solved, because the implosion dynamics of the fast ignition target, which is non-spherical with a conical target, is quite different from that of the conventional central ignition target. Some previous works showed the possibility of formation of a high-density core. However, the effects of hydrodynamic instability were not discussed in those works. In this paper, we simulate the whole implosion dynamics of a perturbed non-spherical target, and the effect of radiation transport instability is estimated using the two-dimensional integrated implosion (radiation hydrodynamics) code PINOCO. In the result, we have found that the hydrodynamic instabily has less of an effect on the formation of high-density core plasma in the cone-guided implosion, in comparision with the spherical implosion.

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2006 Cambridge University Press