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New Polywell Paper

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:22 am
by mattman
The U of Sydney team has written another Polywell paper.

This one is impressive, it uses theory and simulations to investigate confinement inside the reactor.


http://pop.aip.org/resource/1/phpaen/v18/i11/p112501_s1

Re: New Polywell Paper

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:26 am
by cuddihy
mattman wrote:The U of Sydney team has written another Polywell paper.

This one is impressive, it uses theory and simulations to investigate confinement inside the reactor.


http://pop.aip.org/resource/1/phpaen/v18/i11/p112501_s1
Great paper. They really ought to have given a cite to Indrek Mandre's simulation work as by all appearances they at least duplicated it independantly if not directly using his code.

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:03 pm
by KitemanSA
I thought Indrek's work simulated HIGH beta, not the low beta/ cusp confinement of this work.

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:51 am
by Indrek
KitemanSA wrote:I thought Indrek's work simulated HIGH beta, not the low beta/ cusp confinement of this work.
Nope. Early days all I did was field visualizations, electron paths and basic magnetic confinement. But I have to say it was all very amateurish :oops:.

I did try some high beta with possible wiffleball later on (well I did get a ball in my sims;). But I ran into instabilities and so left it there.

Indrek

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:20 pm
by KitemanSA
So who was it that used an image magnet inside the MaGrid to simulate a high beta plasma?

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:54 pm
by Indrek
KitemanSA wrote:So who was it that used an image magnet inside the MaGrid to simulate a high beta plasma?
That was later work together with icarus and is actually analytic in nature, not a simulation.

Indrek

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:46 pm
by Diogenes
OMG is there finally something new (and interesting) in the Theory thread?

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:31 pm
by KitemanSA
Indrek wrote: That was later work together with icarus and is actually analytic in nature, not a simulation.
Was this in any way related to the bag analysis that kcdodd did?

PS: It is NICE to hear from you again!

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:36 pm
by krenshala
Diogenes wrote:OMG is there finally something new (and interesting) in the Theory thread?
In theory there is. ;)