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*STTR Project: Computational Module for Charge Exchange and Ion Stripping in HIB Transport--NPL Associates, Inc., 912 West Armory Avenue, Champaign, IL 61821-4537; 217-333-3772, www.n-plasma.com

Dr. Hiromu Momota, Principal Investigator, momota@uiuc.edu

Dr. George H. Miley, Business Official, georgehm@aol.com

DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-04ER86221

Amount: $100,000

Research Institution

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Urbana, IL

Near term Heavy Ion Fusion (HIF) experiments require the development of a set of subroutines that are suitable for the straightforward insertion into existing simulation codes. This project will develop a subroutine for one such code, LSP, which will provide lookup of charge exchange and ion stripping, especially multi-electron stripping transport. In Phase I, data will be mined from experiments, handbooks, and calculation results to build a database. Further numerical calculations will be performed to fill in gaps. Representative stripping and recombination reactions will be implemented in a prototype code. The performance of the prototype code will be evaluated and recommendations for a reaction matrix, to be included in the expanded Phase II code, will be developed.

Commercial Applications and Other Benefits as described by the awardee: The research should enhance the capabilities of the LSP code for HIF projects and support the building of a demonstration reactor for Inertial Fusion Energy in the future.