Simulations of Interpenetrating Plasmas

Debojyoti Ghosh | 17-ERD-081

Executive Summary

Our project focuses on developing, testing, and validating a novel software tool that will, for the first time, provide efficient simulation of three-dimensional, multifluid plasma interactions that occur in high-energy-density physics research and laboratory simulations of astrophysical shocks. This software tool will support mission-related research in high-energy-density science and inertial confinement fusion.

Publications

Dimits, A. M., et al. 2018. "Linearized Coulomb Collision Operator for Simulation of Interpenetrating Plasma Streams." Kinetic Effects in ICF Workshop, Santa Fe, NM, May 2018. LLNL-PRES-751633.

——— . 2018. "Linearized Coulomb Collision Operator for Simulation of Interpenetrating Plasma Streams." 45th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, Denver, CO, June 2018. LLNL-PRES-753621.

Ghosh, D., et al. 2018. "Numerical Simulation of Counterstreaming Plasma Interactions Using a Multifluid Model." 13th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCMXIII), Minisymposium on High-Order Discretizations for Multi-Physics Applications, New York, NY, July 2018. LLNL-ABS-744005.

——— . 2018. "A Finite-Volume, Semi-Implicit Multifluid Algorithm for the Simulation of Counterstreaming Plasma Dynamics." SIAM Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, July 2018. LLNL-ABS-745531.

——— . 2018. "A Multifluid Numerical Algorithm for Interpenetrating Plasma Dynamics." 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Milwaukee, WI, October 2017. LLNL-ABS-734723.

Joseph, I., et al. 2018. "Multiscale Models for the Two-Stream Instability." 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Milwaukee, WI, October 2017. LLNL-ABS-734827.

Kavouklis, C. 2018. "A 6th Order Finite Volume Multigrid Poisson Solver." 15th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, Copper Mountain, CO, March 2017. LLNL-ABS-744295.