Published 1983 | Version v1
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Stochastic modelling of fusion-product transport and thermalization with nuclear elastic scattering

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Monte Carlo methods are developed to model fusion-product (fp) transport and thermalization with both Rutherford scattering and nuclear elastic scattering (NES) in high-temperature (T/sub i/, T/sub e-/ > 50 keV), advanced-fuel (e.g. Cat-D, D-3He) plasmas. A discrete-event model is used to superimpose NES collisions on a Rutherford scattering model that contains the Spitzer coefficients of drag, velocity diffusion (VD), and pith-angle scattering (PAS). The effects of NES on fp transport and thermalization are investigated for advanced-fuel, Field-Reversed Mirror (FRM) plasmas that have a significant Hamiltonian-canonical angular momentum (H-Ptheta) space loss cone which scales with the characteristic size (S identical with R/sub HV//3p/sub i/) and applied vacuum magnetic field (B0)

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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS, PC A10/MF A01; 1 as DE84001524.

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213 p.
Report number
DOE/ET/52040--T18

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
15007665
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
DEUTERIUM; ELASTIC SCATTERING; FUSION YIELD; HELIUM 3; LOSS CONE INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC FIELD REVERSAL; MAGNETIC MIRROR CONFIGURATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSPORT THEORY
Descriptors DEC
EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HELIUM ISOTOPES; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; INSTABILITY; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS; NUCLEAR REACTION YIELD; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; OPEN CONFIGURATIONS; PLASMA INSTABILITY; PLASMA MICROINSTABILITIES; SCATTERING; STABLE ISOTOPES