The main features of codes for inertial confinement fusion studies are outlined, and a few recent simulation results arepresented. The two-dimensional Lagrangian fluid code DUED is used to study target evolution, including beam-driven compression, hydrodynamic stability, hot spot formation, ignition and burn. An electro-magnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code is applied to the study of ultraintense laser–plasma interaction and generation of fast electron jets. A relativistic 3D collisionless fluid model addresses relativistic electron beam propagation in a dense plasma.
Fluid and kinetic simulations of inertial confinement fusion plasmas
CALIFANO, FRANCESCO;CORNOLTI, FULVIO;PEGORARO, FRANCESCO
2005-01-01
Abstract
The main features of codes for inertial confinement fusion studies are outlined, and a few recent simulation results arepresented. The two-dimensional Lagrangian fluid code DUED is used to study target evolution, including beam-driven compression, hydrodynamic stability, hot spot formation, ignition and burn. An electro-magnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code is applied to the study of ultraintense laser–plasma interaction and generation of fast electron jets. A relativistic 3D collisionless fluid model addresses relativistic electron beam propagation in a dense plasma.File in questo prodotto:
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