| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 59, 2013
IFSA 2011 – Seventh International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications
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| Article Number | 03005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | III. Alternative Target Physics (Impact, Shock, Fast Ignition, ...) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135903005 | |
| Published online | 15 November 2013 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135903005
Analytical criterion for shock ignition of fusion reaction in hot spot
University Bordeaux - CNRS - CEA, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications, UMR 5107, 33405 Talence, France
a e-mail: ribeyre@celia.u-bordeaux1.fr
Published online: 15 November 2013
Shock ignition of DT capsules involves two major steps. First, the fuel is assembled by means of a low velocity conventional implosion. At stagnation, the central core has a temperature lower than the one needed for ignition. Then a second, strong spherical converging shock, launched from a high intensity laser spike, arrives to the core. This shock crosses the core, rebounds at the target center and increases the central pressure to the ignition conditions. In this work we consider this latter phase by using the Guderley self-similar solution for converging flows. Our model accounts for the fusion reaction energy deposition, thermal and radiation losses thus describing the basic physics of hot spot ignition. The ignition criterion derived from the analytical model is successfully compared with full scale hydrodynamic simulations.
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