Advanced Multifluid and Collisional-Radiative Models for Laser-Plasma Interaction (Briefing Charts)

Abstract

Table of Contents: Motivation, Plasma M&S & CR kinetics, Level grouping, Multi-fluid equations & LPI, Beyond translational equilibrium, and Summary & future work. Conclusion: Multiscale algorithms for nonequilibrium flows with CR kinetics. Level grouping schemes of electronic states of atoms. Multi-fluid equations developed to efficiently capture electron hydrodynamics . Particle merge/split for particle management, efficient sampling, inelastic collisions. Ongoing works: Multi-D simulation with level grouping, Modeling of inelastic collisions in multi-fluid, and High-order particle merging schemes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA614462

Entities

People

  • David Bilyeu
  • Hai Le
  • Jean Luc Cambier
  • Robert R. S. Martin

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Collisions
  • Electronic States
  • Electrostatic Fields
  • Energy
  • Energy Conservation
  • Equations
  • Excitation
  • Fluids
  • Ionization
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Kinetics
  • Military Research
  • Nonequilibrium Flow
  • Particles
  • Radiation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics

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  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics