An overview of magneto-inertial fusion on the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories

DA Yager-Elorriaga, MR Gomez, DE Ruiz… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an overview of the magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) concept Magnetized Liner
Inertial Fusion (MagLIF) pursued at Sandia National Laboratories and review some of the …

MA-class linear transformer driver for -pinch research

F Conti, JC Valenzuela, V Fadeev, N Aybar… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
A linear transformer driver (LTD) generator capable of delivering up to 0.9 MA current pulses
with 160 ns rise time has been assembled and commissioned at University of California San …

Harmonic generation and inverse cascade in the z-pinch driven, preseeded multimode, magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability

DE Ruiz, DA Yager-Elorriaga, KJ Peterson… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability (MRTI) plays an essential role in astrophysical
systems and in magneto-inertial fusion, where it is known to be an important degradation …

Controlling morphology and improving reproducibility of magnetized liner inertial fusion experiments

DJ Ampleford, DA Yager-Elorriaga, CA Jennings… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT X-ray imaging indicates magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) stagnation
columns have a complicated quasi-helical structure with significant variations in x-ray …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the parameter space of MagLIF implosions using similarity scaling. I. Theoretical framework

DE Ruiz, PF Schmit, DA Yager-Elorriaga… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Magneto-inertial fusion concepts, such as the magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF)
platform [MR Gomez et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 155003 (2014)], constitute an alternative …

Exploring the parameter space of MagLIF implosions using similarity scaling. II. Current scaling

DE Ruiz, PF Schmit, DA Yager-Elorriaga… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) is a magneto-inertial-fusion (MIF) concept, which is
presently being studied on the Z pulsed power facility. The MagLIF platform has achieved …

[HTML][HTML] Bell-Plesset effects in Rayleigh-Taylor instability of finite-thickness spherical and cylindrical shells

AL Velikovich, PF Schmit - Physics of Plasmas, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Bell-Plesset (BP) effects account for the influence of global convergence or divergence of
the fluid flow on the evolution of the interfacial perturbations embedded in the flow. The …

Data-driven assessment of magnetic charged particle confinement parameter scaling in magnetized liner inertial fusion experiments on Z

WE Lewis, OM Mannion, DE Ruiz, CA Jennings… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In magneto-inertial fusion, the ratio of the characteristic fuel length perpendicular to the
applied magnetic field R to the α-particle Larmor radius ϱ α is a critical parameter setting the …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of sausage and helical modes in magnetized thin-foil cylindrical liners driven by a Z-pinch

DA Yager-Elorriaga, YY Lau, P Zhang… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we present experimental results on axially magnetized (B z= 0.5–2.0 T), thin-
foil (400 nm-thick) cylindrical liner-plasmas driven with∼ 600 kA by the Michigan …

Stabilization of liner implosions via a dynamic screw pinch

PC Campbell, TM Jones, JM Woolstrum, NM Jordan… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Magnetically driven implosions are susceptible to magnetohydrodynamic instabilities,
including the magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability (MRTI). To reduce MRTI growth in solid …