Plastic ablator ignition capsule design for the National Ignition Facility [electronic resource].
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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2009. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
This paper describes current efforts to develop a plastic ablator capsule design for the first ignition attempt on the National Ignition Facility. The trade-offs in capsule scale and laser energy that must be made to achieve ignition probabilities comparable to those with other candidate ablators, beryllium and high-density carbon, are emphasized. Large numbers of 1-D simulations, meant to assess the statistical behavior of the target design, as well as 2-D simulations to assess the target's susceptibility to Rayleigh-Taylor growth are discussed.
Published through SciTech Connect. 10/06/2009. "llnl-proc-418127" Presented at: IFSA 2009, San Francisco, CA, United States, Sep 07 - Sep 11, 2009. Clark, D S; Hammel, B A; Salmonson, J D; Haan, S W; Callahan, D A; Town, R J.