HYPERVELOCITY IMPACT FUSION OF HEAVY CLUSTERS

The possibility of achievement of the conditions for thermonuclear bur n initiation in cluster-impact fusion (CIF) experiments is numerically investigated by methods of hydrodynamics. High-energy cluster impacts on the solid surface of frozen D-D and D-T mixtures are considered. T wo-temperature 1-D and 2-D hydrodynamical mathematical models are used to describe the dynamics of strongly coupled by shock waves plasma it 's pressures, temperatures as well as the processes of CIF initiation having regard to the ion-electron energy relaxation, heat and radiatio n transfer. Thermonuclear neutrons yields are calculated as well. It i s shown that a relatively slow ion-electron energy exchange leads to a n essential enhancement of CIF yields.