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mattman
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New Polywell Paper

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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

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Re: New Polywell Paper

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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.
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I thought Indrek's work simulated HIGH beta, not the low beta/ cusp confinement of this work.

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Post 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.

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Post by KitemanSA »

So who was it that used an image magnet inside the MaGrid to simulate a high beta plasma?

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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.

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Post by Diogenes »

OMG is there finally something new (and interesting) in the Theory thread?
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Post 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!

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Post by krenshala »

Diogenes wrote:OMG is there finally something new (and interesting) in the Theory thread?
In theory there is. ;)

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