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Coupling of Radiation Transport with the Gas Dynamics for HYLIFE-II Analysis

Xiang M. Chen, Virgil E. Schrock, Per F. Peterson

Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 26 / Number 3P2 / November 1994 / Pages 906-911

Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor, Reactor Target, and Driver / Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40269

Gas dynamics in an inertial confinement fusion reactor involves extremely high energy and temperatures. In those temperature range, gaseous radiation can be critical to the dynamics phenomenon. This study presents a method that couples an one-dimensional radiation transfer model with an Eulerian gas dynamics code for HYLIFE-II studies. The results reveals that radiation modifies the shock interaction pattern drastically. Although there are more sophisticated methods of computing one-dimensional radiation transport than the model implemented in current study, the methodology used here are extendible to two-dimensional schemes.