1
|
Zhang C, Wang L. Thermorelaxing multicomponent flows investigated with a Baer-Nunziato-type model. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:045108. [PMID: 37978692 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.045108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
Abstract
In inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions, mixing the ablator into the fuel and the hot spot is one of the most adverse factors that lead to ignition degradation. Recent experiments in the Marble campaign at the Omega laser facility and the National Ignition Facility demonstrate the significance of the temperature separation in heterogeneous mixing flows [Haines et al., Nat. Commun. 11, 544 (2020)2041-172310.1038/s41467-020-14412-y]. In the present work we provide an approach to deal with thermally disequilibrium multicomponent flows with the ultimate aim to investigate the temperature separation impact on mixing and fusion burn. The present work is twofold: (a) We derive a model governing the multicomponent flows in thermal disequilibrium with transport terms and (b) we use the derived model to study the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in thermally relaxing multicomponent systems. The model is reduced from the full disequilibrium multiphase Baer-Nunziato model in the limit of small Knudsen number Kn≪1. Velocity disequilibrium is closed with the diffusion laws and only one mass-weighted velocity is retained formally. Thus, the complex wave structure of the original Baer-Nunziato model is simplified to a large extent and the obtained model is much more computationally affordable. Moreover, the capability to deal with finite-temperature relaxation is kept. Efficient numerical methods for solving the proposed model are also presented. Equipped with the proposed model and numerical methods, we further investigate the impact of thermal relaxation on the RT instability development at the ICF deceleration stage. On the basis of numerical simulations, we have found that for the RT instability at an interface between the high-density low-temperature component and the low-density high-temperature component, the thermal relaxation significantly suppresses the development of the instability.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Chao Zhang
- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
| | - Lifeng Wang
- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
- Center for Applied Physics and Technology, HEDPS, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
| |
Collapse
|
2
|
Paddock RW, Martin H, Ruskov RT, Scott RHH, Garbett W, Haines BM, Zylstra AB, Aboushelbaya R, Mayr MW, Spiers BT, Wang RHW, Norreys PA. One-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of low convergence ratio direct-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2021; 379:20200224. [PMID: 33280567 PMCID: PMC7741005 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2020.0224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Indirect drive inertial confinement fusion experiments with convergence ratios below 17 have been previously shown to be less susceptible to Rayleigh-Taylor hydrodynamic instabilities, making this regime highly interesting for fusion science. Additional limitations imposed on the implosion velocity, in-flight aspect ratio and applied laser power aim to further reduce instability growth, resulting in a new regime where performance can be well represented by one-dimensional (1D) hydrodynamic simulations. A simulation campaign was performed using the 1D radiation-hydrodynamics code HYADES to investigate the performance that could be achieved using direct-drive implosions of liquid layer capsules, over a range of relevant energies. Results include potential gains of 0.19 on LMJ-scale systems and 0.75 on NIF-scale systems, and a reactor-level gain of 54 for an 8.5 MJ implosion. While the use of 1D simulations limits the accuracy of these results, they indicate a sufficiently high level of performance to warrant further investigations and verification of this new low-instability regime. This potentially suggests an attractive new approach to fusion energy. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy (part 2)'.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- R. W. Paddock
- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - H. Martin
- University College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - R. T. Ruskov
- University College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - R. H. H. Scott
- Central Laser Facility, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
| | - W. Garbett
- AWE plc, Aldermaston, Reading, Berkshire RG7 4PR, UK
| | - B. M. Haines
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS T087, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
| | - A. B. Zylstra
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
| | | | - M. W. Mayr
- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - B. T. Spiers
- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - R. H. W. Wang
- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - P. A. Norreys
- Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- University College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Central Laser Facility, STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
| |
Collapse
|
3
|
Clérouin J, Arnault P, Gréa BJ, Guisset S, Vandenboomgaerde M, White AJ, Collins LA, Kress JD, Ticknor C. Static and dynamic properties of multi-ionic plasma mixtures. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:033207. [PMID: 32289916 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.033207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
Complex plasma mixtures with three or more components are often encountered in astrophysics or in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments. For mixtures containing species with large differences in atomic number Z, the modeling needs to consider at the same time the kinetic theory for low-Z elements combined with the theory of strongly coupled plasma for high-Z elements, as well as all the intermediate situations that can appear in multicomponent systems. For such cases, we study the pair distribution functions, self-diffusions, mutual diffusion, and viscosity for ternary mixtures at extreme conditions. These quantities can be produced from first principles using orbital free molecular dynamics at the computational expense of very intensive simulations to reach good statistics. Utilizing the first-principles results as reference data, we assess the merit of a global analytic model for transport coefficients, "pseudo-ions in jellium" (PIJ), based on an isoelectronic assumption (iso-n_{e}). With a multicomponent hypernetted-chain integral equation, we verify the quality of the iso-n_{e} prescription for describing the static structure of the mixtures. This semianalytical modeling compares well with the simulation results and allows one to consider plasma mixtures not accessible to simulations. Applications are given for the mix of materials in ICF experiments. A reduction of a multicomponent mixture to an effective binary mixture is also established in the hydrodynamic limit and compared with PIJ estimations for ICF relevant mixtures.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Jean Clérouin
- CEA-DAM-DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France.,Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Laboratoire Matière en Conditions Extrêmes, 91680 Bruyères-le-Chàtel, France
| | | | | | | | | | - Alexander J White
- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
| | - Lee A Collins
- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
| | - Joel D Kress
- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
| | - Christopher Ticknor
- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
| |
Collapse
|
4
|
Viciconte G, Gréa BJ, Godeferd FS, Arnault P, Clérouin J. Sudden diffusion of turbulent mixing layers in weakly coupled plasmas under compression. Phys Rev E 2020; 100:063205. [PMID: 31962510 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.063205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
The rapid growth of viscosity driven by temperature increase in turbulent plasmas under compression induces a sudden dissipation of kinetic energy, eventually leading to the relaminarization of the flow [Davidovits and Fisch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 105004 (2016)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.116.105004]. The interdiffusion between species is also greatly enhanced, so that mixing layers appearing at interfaces between different materials are subjected to strong dynamical modifications. The result is a competition between the vanishing turbulent diffusion and the expanding plasma microscopic diffusion. In direct numerical simulations with conditions relevant to inertial confinement fusion, we evidence regimes where compressed spherical mixing layers are quickly diffused during the relaminarization process. Using one and two-point turbulent statistics, we also detail how mixing heterogeneities are smoothed out.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Giovanni Viciconte
- CEA, DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France and LMFA UMR5509-CNRS, Université de Lyon, École centrale de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Écully, France
| | | | - Fabien S Godeferd
- LMFA UMR5509-CNRS, Université de Lyon, École centrale de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Écully, France
| | | | | |
Collapse
|