Macroscopic laser–plasma interaction under strong non-local transport conditions for coupled matter and radiation

Nikl J.; Holec M.; Zeman M.; Kuchařík M.; Limpouch J.; Weber S.

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Nikl J., Holec M., Zeman M., Kuchařík M., Limpouch J., Weber S.. Macroscopic laser–plasma interaction under strong non-local transport conditions for coupled matter and radiation[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2018, 3(3). doi: 10.1016/j.mre.2018.03.001

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Nikl J., Holec M., Zeman M., Kuchařík M., Limpouch J., Weber S.. Macroscopic laser–plasma interaction under strong non-local transport conditions for coupled matter and radiation[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2018, 3(3). doi: 10.1016/j.mre.2018.03.001

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Nikl J., Holec M., Zeman M., Kuchařík M., Limpouch J., Weber S.. Macroscopic laser–plasma interaction under strong non-local transport conditions for coupled matter and radiation[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2018, 3(3). doi: 10.1016/j.mre.2018.03.001

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Macroscopic laser–plasma interaction under strong non-local transport conditions for coupled matter and radiation

doi: 10.1016/j.mre.2018.03.001

Nikl J.^{1, 2},
Holec M.³,
Zeman M.²,
Kuchařík M.²,
Limpouch J.²,
Weber S.^{1
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aELI-Beamlines, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 18221 Prague, Czech Republic
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bFaculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, 11519 Prague, Czech Republic
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cCentre Lasers Intenses et Applications, Université de Bordeaux-CNRS-CEA, UMR 5107, F-33405 Talence, France

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Corresponding author: *Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: stefan.weber@eli-beams.eu (S. Weber).
Received Date: 2017-11-19
Accepted Date: 2018-03-08
Publish Date: 2018-05-15

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Reliable simulations of laser–target interaction on the macroscopic scale are burdened by the fact that the energy transport is very often non-local. This means that the mean-free-path of the transported species is larger than the local gradient scale lengths and transport can be no longer considered diffusive. Kinetic simulations are not a feasible option due to tremendous computational demands, limited validity of the collisional operators and inaccurate treatment of thermal radiation. This is the point where hydrodynamic codes with non-local radiation and electron heat transport based on first principles emerge. The simulation code PETE (Plasma Euler and Transport Equations) combines both of them with a laser absorption method based on the Helmholtz equation and a radiation diffusion scheme presented in this article. In the case of modelling ablation processes it can be observed that both, thermal and radiative, transport processes are strongly non-local for laser intensities of 1013 W/cm2 and above. In this paper simulations for various laser intensities and different ablator materials are presented, where the non-local and diffusive treatments of radiation transport are compared. Significant discrepancies are observed, supporting importance of non-local transport for inertial confinement fusion related studies as well as for pre-pulse generated plasma in ultra-high intensity laser–target interaction.
- Inertial confinement fusion,
- Laser–plasma interaction,
- Radiation hydrodynamics,
- Transport theory

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