Compression of a magnetized plasma in the form of a field-reversed configuration (FRC) to megagauss magnetic field levels by implosion of a surrounding cylindrical liner of liquid metal must address the need for implosion times sufficiently short compared with various loss times from the FRC. This issue is examined in the context of FRCs with high elongation, which may allow stability. Implosion times comparable to the initial value of loss time for magnetic flux, scaling energy, and particle loss times appear adequate to achieve large gains in plasma energy and temperature during compression. With loss based on neoclassical transport, liners at feasible drive pressures and initial diameters of tens of centimeters should be satisfactory for useful compressions of FRCs. In the dimensionless analyses presented, the product of liner speed and initial plasma radius indicates the importance of high initial temperature (~500–800 eV) to reduce the size and cost at allowable drive pressures for the stabilized liner implosion.

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具有扩散损失的场反转配置的内爆线性压缩

与来自 FRC 的各种损失时间相比，通过周围液态金属圆柱衬里的内爆将磁化等离子体以场反转配置 (FRC) 的形式压缩到超高磁场水平，必须满足对内爆时间足够短的需求。这个问题是在具有高伸长率的 FRC 的背景下检查的，这可能允许稳定性。与磁通量、缩放能量和粒子损失时间的损失时间的初始值相当的内爆时间似乎足以在压缩期间实现等离子体能量和温度的大增益。由于基于新古典传输的损失，在可行的驱动压力和数十厘米的初始直径下的衬里对于 FRC 的有用压缩应该是令人满意的。在提出的无量纲分析中，