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This research was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Project No. ENE2014-54960R, and by the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte under the National Research Program FPU, Grant No. FPU 14/04879.

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Magnetic pressure effects in a plasma-liner interface

Publicat a:Physics Of Plasmas. 25 (4): - 2018-04-01 25(4), DOI: 10.1063/1.5025800

Autors: Garcia-Rubio, F.; Sanz, J.;

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A theoretical analysis of magnetic pressure effects in a magnetized liner inertial fusion-like plasma is presented. In previous publications [F. Garcia-Rubio and J. Sanz, Phys. Plasmas 24, 072710 (2017)], the evolution of a hot magnetized plasma in contact with a cold unmagnetized plasma, aiming to represent the hot spot and liner, respectively, was investigated in planar geometry. The analysis was made in a double limit low Mach and high thermal to magnetic pressure ratio beta. In this paper, the analysis is extended to an arbitrary pressure ratio. Nernst, Ettingshausen, and Joule effects come into play in the energy balance. The region close to the liner is governed by thermal conduction, while the Joule dissipation becomes predominant far from it when the pressure ratio is low. Mass ablation, thermal energy, and magnetic flux losses are reduced with plasma magnetization, characterized by the electron Hall parameter omega(e)tau(e), until beta values of order unity are reached. From this point forward, increasing the electron Hall parameter no longer improves the magnetic flux conservation, and mass ablation is enhanced due to the magnetic pressure gradients. A thoughtful simplification of the problem that allows to reduce the order of the system of governing equations while still retaining the finite b effects is presented and compared to the exact case. Published by AIP Publishing.

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