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Magneto-inertial and magnetised-target systems

Magneto-inertial fusion sits between the magnetic and inertial regimes: a pre-magnetised target is compressed on inertial time-scales while the embedded field suppresses thermal conduction and confines charged fusion products. MagLIF preheats the fuel with a laser inside an axial field and implodes a metal liner; plasma-jet liners and mechanical or liquid liners do the compression with matter; FRC compression collides or compresses field-reversed configurations, the route pursued by SCPN-MIF-Core.

Each device core below is the single owner of its reactor family's configuration truth inside the SCPN Reactor Systems research group. Solver mathematics stays in SCPN-Fusion-Core, shared physics and geometry kernels in SCPN Reactor Kernels; a device core consumes them through versioned seams and cannot actuate anything directly.

Device cores in this family

SCPN-MIF-CORE · FRC compression · Magneto-Inertial Fusion pulsed-FRC kinematic and RTL hot-path laboratory Owns the configurations: FRC-compression MIF portal with the solver and evidence pages · repository · release active
SCPN-MIF-MAGLIF-CORE · MagLIF · Three Stages That Define The Class Owns the configurations: MagLIF repository · evidence maturity: computational_prototype · 5 implemented capabilities: device configuration model, diagnostic and clock semantics, level-0 device physics, device 3D model, device CAD model · no release, no demo
SCPN-MIF-PLASMA-JET-CORE · Plasma-jet liner · A Liner Made Of Jets Owns the configurations: plasma-jet MIF repository · evidence maturity: computational_prototype · 3 implemented capabilities: device configuration model, diagnostic and clock semantics, level-0 device physics · no release, no demo
SCPN-MIF-LINER-CORE · Mechanical or liquid liner · Matter As The Compressor Owns the configurations: mechanical or liquid liner MIF repository · evidence maturity: computational_prototype · 5 implemented capabilities: device configuration model, diagnostic and clock semantics, level-0 device physics, device 3D model, device CAD model · no release, no demo

Where to start

Read the physicsThe drive, the cylindrical and spherical compression laws as upper bounds, the losses they ignore, and the FRC target: every relation one a device core implements. Try the explorerLoad a printed design point, the SAND2021-3239B MagLIF liner, the LA-7686-MS Fast Liner Reactor or the thirty-jet array of Hsu et al., and move the convergence ratio. Walk the four configurationsMagLIF, material liner, plasma-jet liner and FRC compression: what each core owns, excludes, anchors on and does not claim. Run a merge-trigger decisionThe SCPN-MIF-Core notebook, executed and rendered: a first decision on the built-in two-plasmoid scenario. Check the sourcesThe filed reports and papers behind every number, and which core anchors on which.

Other families

Closed magnetic confinement5 device cores Open and non-toroidal magnetic confinement3 device cores Self-magnetic and pulsed pinches3 device cores Inertial confinement3 device cores Magneto-inertial and magnetised-target systems4 device cores Electrostatic, beam-target and hybrid systems3 device cores Compare all sixevery level-0 anchor side by side