Modeling the Fusion Reaction in an Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Reactor with the Particle-in-Cell Method and domain free Graphene meshes.
Climate change and humanity’s ever-increasing demand for energy sets up nuclear fusion as an enticing
source of clean energy. If it were to work at levels anticipated, it would be a cleaner, more reliable source
of energy than wind, solar, fossil fuels and nuclear fission. The leading method to attempt to harness a
fusion reaction for energy is a tokamak: a large donut-shaped machine that utilizes magnetic fields to
confine a hot plasma long enough for it to produce energy. The tokamak quickly becomes large,
expensive, and complex. An alternative to the tokamak which can readily produce nuclear fusion is the
inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) device [1]. At present, IECs are not contenders for a fusion power
device, due to insufficient coulomb collisions, Particle losses through the grids, conduction losses, and
Bremsstrahlung(Photon scattering) but due to their comparative ease at accomplishing fusion they do
allow for the study of fusion reactions. It is the purpose of this research to propose a design for a domain
free graphene IEC fusion device to study the fusion reaction’s response to the superconducting graphene
material, IEC input voltage, and model the processes occurring within the device by utilizing
computational methods. By developing a computational method that can model the small
superconducting graphene IEC device created here, the computations can be extended to simulate bigger
IEC devices with variable geometries and power levels.
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