Numerical study of core formation of asymmetrically driven cone-guided targets

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Sawada, Hiroshi
Sakagami, Hitoshi

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2017

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Compression of a directly driven fast ignition cone-sphere target with a finite number of laser beams is numerically studied using a three-dimensional hydrodynamics code IMPACT-3D. The formation of a dense plasma core is simulated for 12-, 9-, 6-, and 4-beam configurations of the GEKKO XII laser. The complex 3D shapes of the cores are analyzed by elucidating synthetic 2D x-ray radiographic images in two orthogonal directions. The simulated x-ray images show significant differences in the core shape between the two viewing directions and rotation of the stagnating core axis in the top view for the axisymmetric 9- and 6-beam configurations. Published by AIP Publishing.

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Sawada, H., & Sakagami, H. (2017). Numerical study of core formation of asymmetrically driven cone-guided targets. Physics of Plasmas, 24(10), 100703. doi:10.1063/1.4996256

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This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Sawada, H., & Sakagami, H. (2017). Numerical study of core formation of asymmetrically driven cone-guided targets. Physics of Plasmas, 24(10), 100703.. and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4996256.

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