The Inductively Driven Liner (IDL) concept represents a transformational solution to the generation of fusion energy. A fusion gain demonstration device is described that would serve as a smaller-scale, prototype of the commercial fusion reactor, and would demonstrate all essential aspects of the reactor from the ability to form, heat, and confine plasmas at performance levels and establish...
MagLIF is a promising inertial fusion based platforme studied on the Z machine, at Sandia National Laboratories. This fusion scheme combines z-pinch liner implosion, laser heating and magnetic field confinement. A wealth of physical processes can be studied using this platform, from electron heat conduction to magnetic field compression, from magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities to particle...
The most powerful pulse power generator in China - the 10MA PTS facility was used to compress Al samples to pressures over 100GPa. Tens of isentropic compression experiments (ICE) have been conducted at the time of this conference, among which two distinct loading profiles were designed to get different compression processes. A smoothly increasing current was applied to get a shockless and...
GEPI, developed in 2002 [1], has been the first compact pulsed power driver using strip line loads for isentropic compression experiments (ICE). Still in full operation, it delivers 3.5 MA with a 500 ns rise time and its main use is for ICE around or below GPa level, with load width less or equal to 70 mm. Because of its high availability, its reliability and ease of operation, this kind of...
Traditional shock wave physics experiments require the high precision (uniform) impact by a solid driver at well known, and controllable, velocity upon a target. Combining initial shock heating with controlled compression can provide access to the challenging conditions called warm-dense matter. High velocity, electromagnetically driven cylindrical liners can be a convenient and controllable...
The Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability (RMI) has been extensively studied in fluids in planar geometry. Not so well studied are the effects of converging geometry. The portable LANL PHELIX capacitor bank (Vpeak = 100 kV, Ustored = 340 kJ) coupled with the LANL LANSCE multi-frame proton radiography (pRad) facility radiography makes this possible. The PHELIX pulse (tpulse ~ 6 us, 1 < Ipeak < 5...
The high pressure created by magnetic field which was induced by the current flowing through the flyer allows one to reach the megabar pressures and to accelerate the flyers to high velocities. For intense impact of this flyer onto the studied substance it is necessary that a significant portion of the flyer had the density close to the density of the solid. But a part of the stored energy...
The ElectroMagnetic Flux Compression (EMFC) has important applications in solid-state physics (ultrahigh magnetic field physics, high pressure science), and is also likely to find applications in fusion and high-energy density researches.
In the Institute of Fluid Physics (IFP), Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), a medium-sized EMFC device has being developed to carry out some...
