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Title: The development of a high-resolution Eulerian radiation-hydrodynamics simulation capability for laser-driven Hohlraums

Journal Article · · Physics of Plasmas
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0100985· OSTI ID:1886321
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
  3. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Hohlraums are hollow cylindrical cavities with high-Z material walls used to convert laser energy into uniform x-ray radiation drives for inertial confinement fusion capsule implosions and high energy density physics experiments. Credible computational modeling of hohlraums requires detailed modeling and coupling of laser physics, hydrodynamics, radiation transport, heat transport, and atomic physics. We report on improvements to Los Alamos National Laboratory's xRAGE radiation-hydrodynamics code in order to enable hohlraum modeling. xRAGE's Eulerian hydrodynamics and adaptive mesh refinement make it uniquely well suited to study the impacts of multiscale features in hohlraums. In order to provide confidence in this new modeling capability, we demonstrate xRAGE's ability to produce reasonable agreement with data from several benchmark hohlraum experiments. We also use xRAGE to perform integrated simulations of a recent layered high density carbon capsule implosion on the National Ignition Facility in order to evaluate the potential impacts of the capsule support tent, mixed cell conductivity methodologies, plasma transport, and cross-beam energy transfer (XBT). We find that XBT, seeded by plasma flows in the laser entrance hole (LEH), causes a slight decrease in energy coupling to the capsule and that all of these impact the symmetry of the x-ray drive such that they have an appreciable impact on the capsule implosion shape.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
NA0003856; NA0001944; AC52-06NA25396; AC52-07NA27344; 89233218NCA000001
OSTI ID:
1886321
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1880900
Journal Information:
Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 29, Issue 8; ISSN 1070-664X
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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