2:00 PM–5:00 PM, Monday, October 30, 2006
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown - Grand Salon H
Chair: John Porter, Sandia National Laboratories
3:36 PM–3:48 PM
Sophie Chantrenne
David Bliss
Kyle Cochrane
Christine Coverdale
Chris Deeney
Clint Hall
Thomas Haill
Brent Jones
Paul Lepell
Bryan Oliver
Daniel Sinars
Wire-array z pinches provide the x-ray radiation drive for Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments at Sandia National Laboratories. A physical understanding of the physics of wire-array z pinches is important in providing a future radiation source capable of driving high-yield fusion capsules. Modeling of wire-array implosions on the Z machine were performed using the 2-D radiation MHD code Alegra. These new calculations use more accurate initial conditions that are more representative of the experimental data, allowing us to model the implosion through stagnation, to avoid radiation collapse, and to generate a radiation pulse that compares well with data. Code predictions will be compared with tungsten {\&} aluminum wire-array data from Z. \newline \newline Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC04- 94AL85000. a Ktech Corporation, 1300 Eubank Blvd. S.E., Albuquerque, NM 87123-3336