| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K19198/01 |
| Title: |
FOKKER-PLANCK CALCULATIONS OF MAGNETISED LASER-PLASMAS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Bell, Professor AR |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
27 March 1995 |
Ends: |
26 September 1998 |
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113,983
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The main aim of this research is to take a major step forward in determining whether magnetic field is important in laser driven ablation when a target is irradiated by (a) a high intensity tightly focused laser beam, (b) a non-uniform laser beam under conditions appropriate to Inertial Confinement Fusion. An azimuthal magnetic field is generated around a laser hot spot by non-parallel density and temperature gradients. The magnetic field may (a) inhibit energy transport out of the hot spot, (b) collimate the outflowing plasma into a jet. The investigation will require us to write a Fokker-Planck code which models a magnetised plasma in two spatial and one velocity dimension. More general aspects of two-dimensional non-local transport in a magnestised plasma will also be examined.
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