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Fokker-Planck Modeling of Heat Conduction in NIF Hohlraums
We use the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck code OSHUN to model electron heat conduction in a realistic plasma profile for a NIF “rugby-shaped” hohlraum. Please attend my talk on 25 August 2015 to see NIF results.
Andrew H. Dublin1,2, David J. Strozzi1, Adam Tableman3, Benjamin Winjum3 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory1 | University of Rochester2 | University of California at Los Angeles3
Results:
Introduction: Methods: • Electron heat conduction is a key process in inertial fusion
targets, like NIF hohlraums. • Radiation-hydrodynamics codes routinely use the collisional
Spitzer-Harm model, with an ad-hoc “flux limit” to match data. • Kinetic and non-local effects can sometimes be important.
• The code OSHUN (Tzoufras et. al, Phys. Plasmas 2013), developed at UCLA, solves the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation:
• OSHUN uses the spherical harmonic expansion:
• Spherical coordinates: • Electron-ion collision operator (electron-electron is more complicated)
• Thermal conductivity κ:
• Spitzer-Härm, local collisional result (Zi >>1):
• We ran OSHUN on the 1-D green path from above: Z=2 helium • We compare OSHUN results with Spitzer-Härm theory.
LLNL-POST-675603 This work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.
Lasnex simulation of NIF hohlraum. We study heat conduction along the green path.
Gold wall
Capsule: ablator and fusion fuel Helium plasma
electron-electron collisions
electron-ion collisions
fe(r,p,t) = electron distribution
Discussion: • OSHUN displays non-local reduction in thermal conductivity for
large temperature gradients. • Future work: 2D simulations, mobile ions, and gold wall
conditions.
Spitzer-Härm Result
Non-local reduction in κ
λ0 = mean free path
1-D NIF profile for OSHUN 4.5 0.12
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Te
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0.05 Non-locality Parameter
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