Kinetic simulations of a deuterium-tritium Z pinch with > 10 16 neutron yield

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Welch, D R ^a   Rose, D V ^a   Thoma, C ^a   Clark, R E ^a   Mostrom, C B ^a   Stygar, W A ^b   Leeper, R J ^b  

^a VOSS SCIENTIFIC   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS RESISTIVITY; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; DEUTERIUM-TRITIUM; DEUTERIUM-TRITIUM FUELS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; HIGH-CURRENT; HIGH-ENERGY IONS; KINETIC SIMULATION; MEAN-FREE PATH; MULTIDIMENSION; NEUTRON PRODUCTION; NEUTRON YIELDS; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL CODE; PIC CODES; PINCH CURRENT; POWER-LAW; SELF-CONSISTENT CALCULATION; TIME EVOLUTIONS; Z PINCH; Z-PINCH PLASMAS;

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; DEUTERIUM; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PINCH EFFECT; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TRITIUM;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 79958851617     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3562536     Document Type: Article

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