Grace的進修雜記:)

The idea of inertial electrostatic fusion looks like those high technologies shown in movies. In this seminar the speaker introduced Vlasov simulation to avoid the complications caused by collisions. The experiment used laser shock waves to bring fuel spheres include deuterium and tritium to extremely high temperatures and pressures to trigger nuclear fusion reactions. One interesting thing that I learned in the seminar related to instabilities of a spherically convergent discharge, for example, plasma instability in fast spherical discharge. If it is unstable, how can the calculation be done?

Those videos and images showed in the talk not only help me to understand the topic but also explain about the measurements of electron transparency. Instead of using safe low energy electrons for measurements, the speaker used high power to produce effective electrode transparency. What kind of calculation do you use to find the energy output from the device? Or is there a monitor that connected to the setting to read out the energy output?