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Numerical Investigation Into the Highly Nonlinear Heat Transfer Equation with Bremsstrahlung Emission in the Inertial Confinement Fusion Plasmas
Author(s) -
Habibi M.,
Oloumi M.,
Hosseinkhani H.,
Magidi S.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.201500057
Subject(s) - inertial confinement fusion , thermal conduction , heat transfer , physics , bremsstrahlung , plasma , nonlinear system , electron , dissipation , computational physics , mechanics , atomic physics , materials science , thermodynamics , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics
A highly nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation that models the electron heat transfer process in laser inertial fusion has been solved numerically. The strong temperature dependence of the electron thermal conductivity and heat loss term (Bremsstrahlung emission) makes this a highly nonlinear process. In this case, an efficient numerical method is developed for the energy transport mechanism from the region of energy deposition into the ablation surface by a combination of the Crank‐Nicolson scheme and the Newton‐Raphson method. The quantitative behavior of the electron temperature and the comparison between analytic and numerical solutions are also investigated. For more clarification, the accuracy and conservation of energy in the computations are tested. The numerical results can be used to evaluate the nonlinear electron heat conduction, considering the released energy of the laser pulse at the Deuterium‐Tritium (DT) targets and preheating by heat conduction ahead of a compression shock in the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) approach. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)