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电子惯性对高能量密度等离子体碰撞激光吸收的影响

The impact of electron inertia on collisional laser absorption for high energy density plasmas

James R. Young, Pierre-Alexandre Gourdain

AI总结:

本文提出利用广义 Ohm 定律隐式描述电子动力学,以宏观方式模拟高能量密度等离子体中的碰撞激光吸收,并复现截止密度、反射和吸收等特征。

摘要:

高功率激光器处于众多科学领域的前沿。尽管其场强仍远未达到 Schwinger 极限,但它们已被用于极端状态,成功地将粒子加速到高能量,或再现天体物理环境中观测到的现象。然而,我们对激光-等离子体相互作用的理解受到数值模拟的限制,由于需要显式解析短时间和空间尺度,这些模拟运行成本非常高。在这种情况下,采用非碰撞方法对激光-等离子体相互作用建模在数值上代价高昂。即便是将电子和离子建模为独立流体的碰撞方法,在实践中也很缓慢。在这两种情况下,限制都来自对电子运动的直接计算。在本工作中,我们展示了广义 Ohm 定律如何通过激光场、电子流和离子动力学的宏观相互作用来捕捉碰撞吸收现象。该方法复现了通常与显式电子运动相关的若干特征,例如截止密度、反射和吸收。由于电子动力学现在以隐式方式求解,该模型的空间和时间尺度很好地介于多流体尺度与标准磁流体动力学尺度之间,从而能够研究一类新的问题;若使用其他方法,这些问题在数值上求解将过于昂贵。

英文摘要:

High-power lasers are at the forefront of science in many domains. While their fields are still far from reaching the Schwinger limit, they have been used in extreme regimes, to successfully accelerate particles at high energies, or to reproduce phenomena observed in astrophysical settings. However, our understanding of laser plasma interactions is limited by numerical simulations, which are very expensive to run as short temporal and spatial scales need to be resolved explicitly. Under such circumstances, a non-collisional approach to model laser-plasma interactions becomes numerically expensive. Even a collisional approach, modeling the electrons and ions as independent fluids, is slow in practice. In both cases, the limitation comes from a direct computation of electron motion. In this work, we show how the generalized Ohm's law captures collisional absorption phenomena through the macroscopic interactions of laser fields, electron flows, and ion dynamics. This approach replicates several features usually associated with explicit electron motion, such as cut-off density, reflection and absorption. As the electron dynamics is now solved implicitly, the spatial and temporal scales of this model fit well between multi-fluid and standard magnetohydrodynamics scales, allowing to study a new class of problems that would be too expensive to solve numerically with other methods.

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