Power plant and fusion chamber considerations for fast ignition...(i.e., studies considering self-consistent integration of targets, drivers and chambers) have also been completed for both direct-drive and indirect-drive, central ignition (CI) targets [3-5]....
Quantitative infrared image analysis of thermally-thin cellulose surface temperatures during upstream and downstream microgravity flame spread from a central ignition line... Preheat lengths are evaluated both upstream and downstream of the central ignition point....
Technical paper effects of swirl on high-speed combustion in a single-shot optical si engine... For central ignition, swirl showed consistently favourable effects on combustion-related performance....
Summary • shock ignition concept...shock ignition) in principle allow for high gain at MJ laser energy With current NIF hohlraum coupling efficiency improved hohlraum coupling efficiency the standard ICF approach: central ignition imploding fuel kinetic energy converted into internal energy and concentrated in the centre of the fuel (see, e.g.,...
