High-Energy-Density Science

Project Highlights

 
FY2023

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Project Title Project Code Principal Investigator Project Type Project Status
High-Rate Carbide Growth by Evaporation 23-FS-011 Xavier Lepro Chavez Feasibility Study Final
Dopants for High Density Carbon 21-ERD-048 Tom Braun Exploratory Research Final
Measurement of Mutual Diffusion in Warm Dense Matter 21-ERD-029 Tilo Doeppner Exploratory Research Final
Breaking Beams: A Kinetic Treatment of the Filamentation and Forward Scatter of Laser Beams in Plasma 22-ERD-042 Thomas Chapman Exploratory Research Continuing
Precision Polishing of Spheres via In-situ Process Monitoring and Machine-learning-based Optimization 23-ERD-014 Suhas Bhandarkar Exploratory Research Continuing
Exploring Innovative High-Gain Ignition Concepts for Inertial Fusion Energy 23-ERD-023 Stephan Maclaren Exploratory Research Final
High Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagrams and Free Energies from First Principles 23-ERD-042 Stanimir Bonev Exploratory Research Continuing
Finite Temperature Structure Prediction 22-FS-014 Stanimir Bonev Feasibility Study Final
Plasma Transport at the Nexus of Measurement and Modeling 20-ERD-035 Robert Rudd Exploratory Research Final
Towards a More Predictive Framework for Laser-Driven Particle Sources through Experimental Data-Informed Machine Learning Models 23-ERD-047 Raspberry Simpson Exploratory Research Continuing
Foam Fills for Laser-Plasma Instability Suppression 21-ERD-041 Peter Amendt Exploratory Research Final
High-Order General Discrete Ordinates Method Enabling Efficient Deterministic Transport in Hydrodynamic Simulations 23-ERD-026 Milan Holec Exploratory Research Continuing
Extending Equation-of-State Measurements to Gigabar Pressures 22-ERD-005 Michael Macdonald Exploratory Research Continuing
Exploring a Novel Way to Mitigate Surface Damage in Tokamaks 21-ERD-009 Michael Campanell Exploratory Research Final
High-Repetition-Rate Diagnostics with Integrated Active Control for a New Paradigm of High-Energy-Density Experiments 21-ERD-015 Matthew Hill Exploratory Research Final
A Kinetic Transport Model for Magnetized Radiation-Hydrodynamics 22-ERD-034 Mark Sherlock Exploratory Research Continuing
Shock Ignition in Indirect Drive: A New Approach to High Fusion Gains 22-DR-010 Lindsay Perkins Disruptive Research Continuing
Bayesian Optimization of High-Intensity, Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration Integrating Experiments and Simulations 23-FS-001 Kelly Swanson Feasibility Study Final
Advanced Time-Resolved Neutron Time-of-Flight Diagnostics for Burning Plasmas 23-FS-038 Justin Jeet Feasibility Study Final
Addressing Key Physics Problems in High-Energy-Density Plasmas with a Novel Kinetic Simulation Capability 23-ERD-007 Justin Angus Exploratory Research Continuing