First Simulation Success
A joint team from LPP and Focus Fusion Society has produced a first numerically stable run of 70 ns simulating the formation of a single filament as part of the plasma sheath in a DPF.
Simulations.
A joint team from LPP and Focus Fusion Society has produced a first numerically stable run of 70 ns simulating the formation of a single filament as part of the plasma sheath in a DPF.
[Update from LPP] Thanks to the work of Jeff Shoen, Henning Burdack and John Guillory, we have gone from zero to two working versions of our one-dimensional filament formation simulation.
While funding remains a critical factor, progress has been made in recent months in focus fusion research. Robert Terry of Naval Research Laboratory, who is collaborating with Lerner, has further developed techniques that can be used to simulate the complex process with in a dense plasma focus.