Search Results - "Kingham, Robert J"
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Generation of shock waves in dense plasmas by high-intensity laser pulses
Published in Nukleonika (01-06-2015)“…When intense short-pulse laser beams ( > 10 W/m , τ < 20 ps) interact with high density plasmas, strong shock waves are launched. These shock waves may be…”
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Generation of 10 kT axial magnetic fields using multiple conventional laser beams: A sensitivity study for kJ PW-class laser facilities
Published in Matter and radiation at extremes (01-01-2025)“…Strong multi-kilotesla magnetic fields have various applications in high-energy density science and laboratory astrophysics, but they are not readily…”
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The impact of non-local parallel electron transport on plasma-impurity reaction rates in tokamak scrape-off layer plasmas
Published 01-10-2024“…Plasma-impurity reaction rates are a crucial part of modelling tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL) plasmas. To avoid calculating the full set of rates for the large…”
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Generation of 10 kT Axial Magnetic Fields Using Multiple Conventional Laser Beams: A Sensitivity Study for kJ PW-Class Laser Facilities
Published 23-12-2023“…Strong multi-kilotesla magnetic fields have various applications in high-energy density science and laboratory astrophysics, but they are not readily…”
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Scaling laws for electron kinetic effects in tokamak scrape-off layer plasmas
Published 05-04-2023“…Tokamak edge (scrape-off layer) plasmas can exhibit non-local transport in the direction parallel to the magnetic field due to steep temperature gradients…”
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SOL-KiT -- fully implicit code for kinetic simulation of parallel electron transport in the tokamak Scrape-Off Layer
Published 02-03-2020“…Here we present a new code for modelling electron kinetics in the tokamak Scrape-Off Layer (SOL). SOL-KiT (Scrape-Off Layer Kinetic Transport) is a fully…”
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Measurement of magnetic cavitation driven by heat flow in a plasma
Published 30-05-2023“…We describe the direct measurement of the expulsion of a magnetic field from a plasma driven by heat flow. Using a laser to heat a column of gas within an…”
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Nernst Effect in Magnetized Plasmas
Published 28-08-2015“…We present nanosecond timescale Vlasov-Fokker-Planck-Maxwell modeling of magnetized plasma transport and dynamics in a hohlraum with an applied external…”
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Testing nonlocal models of electron thermal conduction for magnetic and inertial confinement fusion applications
Published 06-09-2017“…Brodrick et al., Physics of Plasmas 24, 092309 (2017) Three models for nonlocal electron thermal transport are here compared against Vlasov-Fokker-Planck (VFP)…”
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