Plasma focus radiative model: Review of the Lee model code

S Lee - Journal of Fusion Energy, 2014 - Springer
The code couples the electrical circuit with plasma focus (PF) dynamics, thermodynamics
and radiation. It is energy-, charge-and mass-consistent and accounts for the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Update on the scientific status of the plasma focus

S Auluck, P Kubes, M Paduch, MJ Sadowski, VI Krauz… - Plasma, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper is a sequel to the 1998 review paper “Scientific status of the Dense Plasma
Focus” with 16 authors belonging to 16 nations, whose initiative led to the establishment of …

Pinch current limitation effect in plasma focus

S Lee, SH Saw - Applied Physics Letters, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
The Lee model couples the electrical circuit with plasma focus dynamics, thermodynamics,
and radiation. It is used to design and simulate experiments. A beam-target mechanism is …

Plasma focus ion beam fluence and flux—Scaling with stored energy

S Lee, SH Saw - Physics of Plasmas, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Measurements on plasma focus ion beams include various advanced techniques producing
a variety of data which has yet to produce benchmark numbers [A Bernard et al., J. Mosc …

Plasma focus ion beam fluence and flux—For various gases

S Lee, SH Saw - Physics of Plasmas, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
A recent paper derived benchmarks for deuteron beam fluence and flux in a plasma focus
(PF)[S. Lee and SH Saw, Phys. Plasmas 19, 112703 (2012)]. In the present work we start …

[HTML][HTML] Scaling laws for plasma focus machines from numerical experiments

SH Saw, S Lee - Energy and Power Engineering, 2010 - scirp.org
Numerical experiments carried out systematically using the Lee Model code unveil insightful
and practical wide-ranging scaling laws for plasma focus machines for nuclear fusion …

Numerical experiments on plasma focus neutron yield versus pressure compared with laboratory experiments

S Lee, SH Saw, L Soto, SV Springham… - Plasma Physics and …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Published literature shows that the neutron yield of the plasma focus has been modeled in
two papers using a thermonuclear mechanism. However, it is more widely held that plasma …

Current and neutron scaling for megajoule plasma focus machines

S Lee - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
In a 2007 paper Nukulin and Polukhin surmised from electrodynamical considerations that,
for megajoule dense plasma focus devices, focus currents and neutron yield Y n saturate as …

Optimizing UNU/ICTP PFF plasma focus for neon soft X-ray operation

SH Saw, PCK Lee, RS Rawat… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The United Nations University/International Centre for Theoretical Physics Plasma Focus
Facility (UNU/ICTP PFF), a 3.3-kJ plasma focus, was designed for operation in deuterium …

Numerical experiments on plasma focus pinch current limitation

S Lee, P Lee, SH Saw, RS Rawat - Plasma Physics and …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Contrary to the general expectation that performance of a plasma focus would progressively
improve with progressive reduction of its static inductance L o, a recent paper suggests that …