First-principles thermal conductivity of warm-dense deuterium plasmas for inertial confinement fusion applications

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Hu, S X ^a   Collins, L A ^b   Boehly, T R ^a   Kress, J D ^b   Goncharov, V N ^a   Skupsky, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEUTERIUM; EXPLOSIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; PLASMAS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

DEGENERATE PLASMAS; DEUTERIUM-TRITIUM FUELS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATION CODES; NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY; POLYNOMIAL FUNCTIONS; THERMAL CONDUCTION;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84899711236     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.043105     Document Type: Article

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