A study using Flash to design a radiative shock experiment using the ZEUS facility
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Abstract
The ZEUS laser was developedis a high-intensity, ultrashort pulse laser facility at the University of Michigan and willto study nonlinear quantum electrodynamics in relativistic plasmas. It will also have a long-pulse laser to that can drive create hydrodynamic shocks in the high-energy-density regime. We will use the Flash code to design a radiative shock experiment using different various gas densities and opacities to study the evolution of shocks in the radiative and non-radiative regimes. We will then demonstrate synthetic diagnostic images of the results using a betatron x-ray source created using ZEUS’s short pulse laser. This will show demonstrate how powerful a platform the versatility of ZEUS can be in creating and analyzing radiative shocks.
*Support for ZEUS is provided by the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Office of Multidisciplinary Activities and Division of Physics. This work is funded by the U.S. DOE NNSA Center of Excellence under cooperative agreement number DE-NA0003869. The software used in this work was developed in part by the DOE NNSA and DOE Office of Science supported Flash Center for Computational Science at the U. of Chicago and the U. of Rochester. This research was supported in part through computational resources and services provided by Advanced Research Computing at the U. of Michigan.
Presenters
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Matthew Trantham
- University of Michigan