Cavitation and Thermonuclear Fusion. Estimates of the Parameters and a Possible Method of Obtaining Positive Energy Balance

摘要

The possibilities of generating thermonuclear neutrons at the collapse of cavitation cavities filled with a gas including deuterium of cavitation cavities filled with a gas including deuterium or deuterium-tritium mixture re simply estimated. Some possibilities of increasing this neutron yield are discussed. However, a positive energy balance in ordinary (spherical) cavitation is estimated as impossible. A new approach is proposed that is based on so-called cylindrical cavitation and can in principle ensure a positive energy balance. In this approach, cavitations is used to recover thermal energy lost by a tritium ion beam in a deuterium target rather than to generate neutrons in the process of collapse.