Inertial Confinement Fusion Driven Thermonuclear Energy

• Main Author: Zohuri, Bahman (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Energy.; Nuclear energy.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Nuclear engineering.; Nuclear Energy.; Plasma Physics.; Nuclear Engineering.

This book takes a holistic approach to plasma physics and controlled fusion via Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) techniques, establishing a new standard for clean nuclear power generation. Inertial Confinement Fusion techniques to enable laser-driven fusion have long been confined to the black-box...

Table of Contents:

• Short Course in Thermal Physics and Statistical Mechanics
• Essential Physics of Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF)
• Physics of Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF)
• Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF)
• Appendix A: Schrödinger Wave Equation
• Appendix B: The Stirling Formula
• Appendix C: Table of Fermi--Dirac Functions
• Appendix D: Tables of Thomas--Fermi Corrected Equation of State
• Appendix E: Lagrangian and Eulerian Coordinate Systems
• Appendix F: Angular Plasma Frequency and High Power Laser
• Appendix G: A Soliton Wave
• Index.