Additions and improvements to the high energy density physics capabilities in the FLASH code

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Abstract

FLASH is an open-source, finite-volume Eulerian, spatially-adaptive radiation magnetohydrodynamics code that has the capabilities to treat a broad range of physical processes. FLASH performs well on a wide range of computer architectures, and has a broad user base. Extensive high energy density physics (HEDP) capabilities exist in FLASH, which make it a powerful open toolset for the academic HEDP community. We summarize these capabilities, emphasizing recent additions and improvements. We describe several non-ideal MHD capabilities that are being added to FLASH, including the Hall and Nernst effects, implicit resistivity, and a circuit model, which will allow modeling of Z-pinch experiments. We showcase the ability of FLASH to simulate Thomson scattering polarimetry, which measures Faraday due to the presence of magnetic fields, as well as proton radiography, proton self-emission, and Thomson scattering diagnostics. Finally, we describe several collaborations with the academic HEDP community in which FLASH simulations were used to design and interpret HEDP experiments.

*This work was supported in part at U. Chicago by DOE NNSA ASC through the Argonne Institute for Computing in Science under FWP 57789; DOE NNSA under NLUF grant DE-NA0002724; DOE SC OFES grant DE-SC0016566; and NSF grant PHY-1619573.

Authors

  • Donald Lamb

    • university of chicago
    • Univ of Chicago
    • Flash Center for Computational Physics, University of Chicago
  • A. Bogale

    • Flash Center for Computational Physics, University of Chicago
  • Scott Feister

    • Flash Center for Computational Physics, University of Chicago
    • Univ of Chicago
    • Univ. of Chicago (UC)
  • Norbert Flocke

    • Univ of Chicago
    • Flash Center for Computational Physics, University of Chicago
  • C. Graziani

    • Flash Center for Computational Physics, University of Chicago
  • B. Khiar

    • Flash Center for Computational Physics, University of Chicago
  • Jordan Laune

    • Flash Center for Computational Physics, University of Chicago
    • University of Chicago
  • Petros Tzeferacos

    • U Chicago
    • university of chicago
    • Univ of Chicago
    • Flash Center for Computational Physics, University of Chicago
    • University of Chicago
  • Christopher Walker

    • Flash Center for Computational Physics, University of Chicago
    • Univ of Chicago
  • Klaus Weide

    • Univ of Chicago
    • Flash Center for Computational Physics, University of Chicago