Plasma shock waves widely exist and play an important role in high-energy-density environment, especially the inertial confinement fusion. Due to large gradient of macroscopic physical quantities coupled thermal, electrical, magnetic, optical phenomena, there not only hydrodynamic non-equilibrium (HNE) effects but also strong thermodynamic (TNE) around wavefront. In this work, a two-dimensional...

Abstract We report results and modelling of an experiment performed at the Target Area West Vulcan laser facility, aimed investigating laser–plasma interaction in conditions that are interest for shock ignition scheme inertial confinement fusion (ICF), is, intensity higher than ${10}^{16}$ $\mathrm{W}/{\mathrm{cm}}^2$ impinging on a hot ( $T>1$ keV), inhomogeneous long scalelength pre-formed...

In the field of laser generated high energy density physics, hydrodynamics is a very popular approach to describe the created plasma. In the present work, we treat the energy conservation equation of the radiationhydrodynamic model [1]. Particularly, we aim to simulate spatial-time evolution of a coupled system of plasma temperature and radiation field which is provoked by absorption of intense...

Submitted for the DPP05 Meeting of The American Physical Society Advanced-Fuel Burning and Current Drive in a Degenerate Plasma SEUNGHYEON SON, NATHANIEL FISCH, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory — In degenerate dense plasmas, the rates of electron physical processes, such as bremsstrahlung, inverse bremsstrahlung and Compton scattering, are much reduced due to the Fermi-Dirac statistics. In p...