Centrifugal Confinement Fusion Thruster
Plasma Physics
2024-12-04 v1
Abstract
Centrifugal confinement fusion, a promising alternative to toroidal confinement devices like tokamaks and stellarators, leverages supersonic plasma rotation within a magnetic mirror configuration to achieve simplified coil design, compactness, and enhanced stability. This brief article explores the potential of centrifugal confinement fusion for propulsion applications. A previous concern regarding the escape of energetic ions, essential for propulsion, is addressed through test-particle simulations. The results indicate that the earlier estimate based on adiabatic invariance was overly pessimistic, and the underlying physics is clarified.
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@article{arxiv.2412.01980,
title = {Centrifugal Confinement Fusion Thruster},
author = {Yi-Min Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.01980},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
Summary of a talk at the National Institute of Aerospace on October 29, 2024