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Computation and application of atomic data for inertial confinement fusion plasmas

Posted on:1992-01-18Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:The University of Wisconsin - MadisonCandidate:Wang, PingFull Text:PDF
GTID:1472390014999384Subject:Physics
Abstract/Summary:
With the primary aim of generating large scale, high quality atomic data for ICF/MCF research applications, a basic atomic data calculation package has been created. Atomic structure and radiative data (energy levels, oscillator strengths and photoionization cross sections) are calculated based on the Hartree-Fock method. General accuracy of the data is expected to be better than 15% for the single configuration HF calculation and a few percent for the multiconfiguration HF calculation. Atomic collisional data calculations are based on the distorted wave approximation, the Born approximation and the semiclassical impact parameter method.;The atomic data generated from this package has been applied to analyze the K;A non-LTE collisional-radiative-equilibrium model which self-consistently accounts for pressure ionization effects has been formed. Based on this CRE model and our atomic data, an equation of state and opacity computation code, EOSOPC, has been developed. In EOSOPC, important nonideal effects such as pressure ionization, electron degeneracy effects and Debye-Hukel corrections for charged particle interactions have been included in the calculations of equations of state. In the opacity calculations, the group structure for computing group mean opacities can be setup automatically in a prudent manner. Our calculation results show that the group mean opacities are sensitive to the group structure and the accuracy of the atomic data.
Keywords/Search Tags:Atomic data, HF calculation, Mean opacities
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