Universal Plasma Focus Laboratory Facility at INTI-UC

based on the Lee Model in collaboration with

AAAPT NTU-NIE Plasma Radiation Lab UM Plasma Research Lab

International Centre for Theoretical Physics Plasma Focus Lab, Trieste, Italy

Institute for Plasma Focus Studies

Every Dense Plasma Focus, existing, past & planned may be operated with this facility- acquire this facility below

Egypt, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Zimbabwe NTU/NIE Singapore ICDMP Poland

UNU/ICTP PFF Network

New Effect discovered: Plasma Focus Pinch Current Limitation Effect- S Lee & S H Saw, Applied Phys Letters 92, 021503 (2008)

Scaling Laws clarified: Neutron Scaling Laws from Numerical Experiments- S Lee & S H Saw, J Fusion Energy, accepted (5.1.2008) for publication

Current and Neutron Scaling for Megajoule Plasma Focus Machines- S Lee, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion, 50 (2008) 105005

Research Papers 2008 2009

Description of Facility

Theory of Facility

To download the Universal Plasma Focus Laboratory, click: Model Code of Facility

To download a specific Plasma Focus Machine, click one of the following:

PF400 (Chile) UNU/ICTP PFF (Network Countries) NX2 (Singapore) DPF78 & Poseidon (Germany) PF1000 (ICDMP)

(Mini PF-sub kJ) (Small PF- 3kJ) (Hi Rep PF- 3kJ) (30kJ) (300kJ) (Large 1MJ)

Contact: Assoc Prof Dr Saw Sor Heoh

saw_sorheoh@intimal.edu.my

Professor Dr Lee Sing

Institute for Plasma Focus Studies

lee_sing@intimal.edu.my

leesing@optusnet.com.au

Announcements: IWPDA 2009 International Workshop on Plasma Diagnostics & Applications 2-3 July 2009, Singapore

Nuclear & Renewable Energy Sources with International Participation 28-29 September 2009, Ankara, Turkey

Internet Course on Plasma Focus Numerical Experiments: completed in April-May 2008.

New Internet Course on Plasma Focus Numerical Experiments: do this certificated course at your leisure.

Contact: Institute for Plasma Focus Studies

International Workshop on Plasma Computations & Applications: July 14-15 2008: 35 participants from 11 countries; 17 papers presented. Contact: saw_sorheoh@intimal.edu.my

Invitation: Send in your current trace of any (preferably strong) focussing shot. Include the bank parameters, L_o and C_o and r_o(if you have), tube geometry b,a ,z_o and operational parameters V_o and P_o and fill gas. We will fit your current trace for you. On successful fitting you will have the time history of your axial and radial dynamics, plasma properties such as temperature and radiation yield, plus other important quantities such as pinch current and neutron yield (if operating in deuterium) as computed by the model. Or do it yourself with the code you can download above, and let us have your results to add to our Archive.

Useful Tool : The EngaugeDigitizer (digit-exe-windows-4_1) was used to digitize published waveform curves used in this website; the tool may be downloaded from the following link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67696&package_id=130007&release_id=500277

Updated: 28 May 2009

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