Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150101059

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150101059

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding Turbulent Mixing in Inertial Confinement Fusion. By compressing a small sphere of deuterium-tritium using very powerful lasers in a process called inertial confinement fusion, experimentalists have produced a net gain fusion reaction for the first time. However, the gain is significantly under-predicted using the most advanced numerical tools, primarily due to the growth of fluid instabilities. Understanding and controlling the levels of instability growth is critical to achieving more efficient fusion. This international collaboration proposes to employ computations and experiments to deliver a fundamental understanding of mixing layers in implosions and explosions, to provide validation of reduced order models and contribute towards the development of the ultimate energy source.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 25-01-2015

End Date: 31-12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $266,300.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Turbulent Flows | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Computational Fluid Dynamics | Heat and Mass Transfer Operations

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Renewable Energy not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering |

Other Keywords

Computational Fluid Dynamics | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Heat and Mass Transfer Operations | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Renewable Energy not elsewhere classified | Turbulent Flows

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