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[jamesr]

Lerner wrote: The anode, the inner electrode will absolutely have to have helium coolant tubes running through it

If the coolant is helium – I’m assuming then it enters as liquid helium at cyrogenic temperatures. With such a massive temperature gradient through the anode this I would think would have implications for the conductivity. The combination of lower conducivity at the hot surface and the relatively higher conducivity in the cool core of the anode, goes against the normal ‘skin effect’ of the effectively high frequency pulse of current flowing mostly near the surface.

Has any modeling been done to incorporate the temperature differentials on the electrical behaviour of the anode.

I have been playing around with a trial version of Comsol http://www.comsol.com recently and it would seem ideal for this type of modelling.

James