We investigate several means of coupling between a sonoluminescing bubble and an applied magnetic field. Recent experiments show a strong quadratic dependence between the forcing pressures required for stable sonoluminescence and magnetic field amplitude. However, all coupling mechanisms...

A new strategy for validation of hydrocode predictions through the Bayesian analysis of radiographic data is presented. The Bayesian approach allows one to incorporate prior knowledge about the structure of the objects being analyzed and provides the foundation for assessing the reliability of...

Fermilab has adopted the Source Evaluation Board (SEB) method for procuring certain major technical components of the Fermilab Main Injector. The SEB procedure is designed to ensure the efficient and effective expenditure of Government funds at the same time that it optimizes the opportunity for...

National laboratories have limited resources to devote to the transfer of government-funded technologies to the commercial sector. Companies, too, face resource constraints in their attempt to identify and assimilate innovations which fit with their strategic objectives. For these reasons,...

Successful commercialization of fusion energy requires economic viability as well as technical and scientific feasibility. To assess economic viability, we have conducted a pre-conceptual level evaluation of LIFE economics. Unit costs are estimated from a combination of bottom-up costs...

The bootstrap fraction, I{sub bs}/I{sub p}, and the shape of the bootstrap current density, J{sub bs}(r), can depend sensitively on the shape of the plasma profiles. Beginning with Hirshman`s form for the bootstrap current density, and making a large aspect ratio expansion (proceeding two orders...

Current driven by electron Bernstein waves (EBW) and by the electron bootstrap effect are calculated separately and concurrently with a kinetic code, to determine the degree of synergy between them. A target {beta} = 40% NSTX plasma is examined. A simple bootstrap model in the CQL3D...

The bootstrap fraction, I{sub bs}/I{sub p}, and the shape of the bootstrap current density, J{sub bs}(r), can depend sensitively on the shape of the plasma profiles. Beginning with Hirshman's form for the bootstrap current density, and making a large aspect ratio expansion (proceeding two orders...

The effects of the radial electric field E/sub r/ on the bootstrap current in ATF-type configurations are studied with the Drift Kinetic Equation Solver (DKES). It is found that there is a range of E/sub r/ values over which the bootstrap current does not depend on E/sub r/. The effects of E/sub...