Self-magnetic and pulsed pinches

In a pinch the confining field is produced by the current that flows through the plasma. The z-pinch drives an axial current whose azimuthal field compresses the column, with sheared axial flow as the stabilising variant; the theta-pinch drives an azimuthal current from an external coil so the axial field does the compression. The dense plasma focus runs a current sheath down coaxial electrodes and collapses it into a short, hot pinch at the end.

Each device core below is the single owner of its reactor family's configuration truth inside the SCPN Reactor Systems research group. Solver mathematics stays in SCPN-Fusion-Core, shared physics and geometry kernels in SCPN Reactor Kernels; a device core consumes them through versioned seams and cannot actuate anything directly.

Device cores in this family

• SCPN-Z-PINCH-CORE · Z-pinch · The Current Is The Confinement Owns the configurations: sheared-flow z-pinch, z-pinch repository · architecture stage: device configuration truth, no release, no demo
• SCPN-THETA-PINCH-CORE · Theta-pinch · Azimuthal Current, Axial Field Owns the configurations: theta-pinch repository · architecture stage: device configuration truth, no release, no demo
• SCPN-DENSE-PLASMA-FOCUS-CORE · Dense plasma focus · Coaxial Drive, Focused Pinch Owns the configurations: dense plasma focus repository · architecture stage: device configuration truth, no release, no demo

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