Inertial Confinement Fusion Driven Thermonuclear Energy

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...

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Main Author: Zohuri, Bahman. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50907-5
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.