Agreement of measured fusion gains with the self-similarity model and volume ignition for NIF conditions

Author(s):  
Heinrich Hora ◽  
H. Azechi ◽  
Y. Kitagawa ◽  
K. Mima ◽  
M. Murakami ◽  
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1998 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 743-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEINRICH HORA ◽  
H. AZECHI ◽  
Y. KITAGAWA ◽  
K. MIMA ◽  
M. MURAKAMI ◽  
...  

The recent high core gains of 29% in laser fusion experiments at the LLE Rochester are evaluated and compared with related earlier measurements where surprisingly the self-similarity model for volume compression provides a common description. This is a proof that the isentropic conditions of stagnation-free compression were mostly fulfilled at the optimized experimental gains, in contrast to highly entropy-producing shock and central spark conditions. Some projections are given of how these results may be generalized to volume ignition for the parameters of the NIF (National Ignition Facility). The proof of stagnation-free volume compression for the best laser fusion gains indicates the advantages of volume ignition, which not only is ‘robust’ and simply follows the natural adiabatic compression, but also is much less sensitive to instabilities and mixing. However, its essential advantage is that it is free from symmetry problems – in contrast to spark ignition, with its spherical detonation front.


2014 ◽  
Vol 783 (1) ◽  
pp. L10 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gaspari ◽  
F. Brighenti ◽  
P. Temi ◽  
S. Ettori
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 066106
Author(s):  
M. I. Radulescu ◽  
R. Mével ◽  
Q. Xiao ◽  
S. Gallier

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 1197-1210
Author(s):  
C. Giudicianni ◽  
A. Di Nardo ◽  
R. Greco ◽  
A. Scala

AbstractMost real-world networks, from the World-Wide-Web to biological systems, are known to have common structural properties. A remarkable point is fractality, which suggests the self-similarity across scales of the network structure of these complex systems. Managing the computational complexity for detecting the self-similarity of big-sized systems represents a crucial problem. In this paper, a novel algorithm for revealing the fractality, that exploits the community structure principle, is proposed and then applied to several water distribution systems (WDSs) of different size, unveiling a self-similar feature of their layouts. A scaling-law relationship, linking the number of clusters necessary for covering the network and their average size is defined, the exponent of which represents the fractal dimension. The self-similarity is then investigated as a proxy of recurrent and specific response to multiple random pipe failures – like during natural disasters – pointing out a specific global vulnerability for each WDS. A novel vulnerability index, called Cut-Vulnerability is introduced as the ratio between the fractal dimension and the average node degree, and its relationships with the number of randomly removed pipes necessary to disconnect the network and with some topological metrics are investigated. The analysis shows the effectiveness of the novel index in describing the global vulnerability of WDSs.


Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 314
Author(s):  
Tianyu Jing ◽  
Huilan Ren ◽  
Jian Li

The present study investigates the similarity problem associated with the onset of the Mach reflection of Zel’dovich–von Neumann–Döring (ZND) detonations in the near field. The results reveal that the self-similarity in the frozen-limit regime is strictly valid only within a small scale, i.e., of the order of the induction length. The Mach reflection becomes non-self-similar during the transition of the Mach stem from “frozen” to “reactive” by coupling with the reaction zone. The triple-point trajectory first rises from the self-similar result due to compressive waves generated by the “hot spot”, and then decays after establishment of the reactive Mach stem. It is also found, by removing the restriction, that the frozen limit can be extended to a much larger distance than expected. The obtained results elucidate the physical origin of the onset of Mach reflection with chemical reactions, which has previously been observed in both experiments and numerical simulations.


Fractals ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (03) ◽  
pp. 349-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
BÜNYAMIN DEMÍR ◽  
ALI DENÍZ ◽  
ŞAHIN KOÇAK ◽  
A. ERSIN ÜREYEN

Lapidus and Pearse proved recently an interesting formula about the volume of tubular neighborhoods of fractal sprays, including the self-similar fractals. We consider the graph-directed fractals in the sense of graph self-similarity of Mauldin-Williams within this framework of Lapidus-Pearse. Extending the notion of complex dimensions to the graph-directed fractals we compute the volumes of tubular neighborhoods of their associated tilings and give a simplified and pointwise proof of a version of Lapidus-Pearse formula, which can be applied to both self-similar and graph-directed fractals.


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