Key Issues and Application Prospects in High-Temperature Plasma Physics

Meiyi Chen

doi:10.54097/ba0fpz05

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Meiyi Chen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/ba0fpz05

Keywords:

High temperature plasma, nuclear fusion, magnetic confinement, inertial confinement, plasma instability.

Abstract

High-temperature plasma physics is the core area of research into nuclear fusion energy, and it also has broad application potential in industry and astrophysics. The paper systematically reviews the fundamental definition, the formation mechanism, and research history of high-temperature plasma; analyzes focal problems including energy confinement, plasma instability, radiation cooling, material tolerance, turbulent dynamics; and discusses the technical progress and challenges of magnetic confinement and inertial confinement experimental devices. The comparison of tokamak against laser inertial confinement gives further illustration of the pros and disadvantages of the two fusion routes. Nuclear fusion energy, from an application viewpoint, represents a very ideal energy source for future sustainable development, and high-temperature plasma technology is also very promising in industrial processing, astrophysical experiments, and other fields. In conjunction with relevant recent research, suggestions are also given in this paper regarding high-temperature plasma in the future development direction. All this is done as an effort to offer reference and guidance for future developments in that field.

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