Yield degradation mechanisms for two-shock capsules evaluated through simulations

Author:

Bradley P. A.1ORCID,Haines B. M.1ORCID,Kyrala G. A.1ORCID,MacLaren S. A.2ORCID,Salmonson J. D.2,Pino J. E.2ORCID,Mackay K. K.2ORCID,Peterson R. R.1ORCID,Yi A.1,Yin L.1ORCID,Olson R. E.1ORCID,Krasheninnikova N.1,Batha S. H.1ORCID,Kline J. L.1ORCID,Sauppe J. P.1ORCID,Finnegan S. M.1ORCID,Pak A.2,Ma T.2ORCID,Dittrich T. R.2,Dewald E. L.2ORCID,Khan S. F.2ORCID,Sayre D.2,Tommasini R.2ORCID,Ralph J. E.2ORCID,Field J. E.2ORCID,Masse L.2ORCID,Tipton R. E.2,Mackinnon A. J.2ORCID,Benedetti L. R.2ORCID,Nagel S. R.2ORCID,Bradley D. K.2ORCID,Celliers P. M.2ORCID,Berzak Hopkins L.2ORCID,Izumi N.2ORCID,Kervin P.2,Yeamans C.2ORCID,Hatarik R.2,Hartouni E. P.2ORCID,Turnbull D. P.2ORCID,Chen K. C.3,Hoover D. E.3

Affiliation:

1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA

2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA

3. General Atomics, San Diego, California 92121, USA

Abstract

An investigation of twenty two-shock campaign indirectly driven capsules on the National Ignition Facility was conducted using the xRAGE computer code. The two-shock platform was developed to look at the sensitivity of fuel–ablator mix with shock timing, asymmetry, surface roughness, and convergence on roughly ignition size scale capsules. This platform used CH/CD (plastic/deuterated plastic) shell capsules that were about 685- μm outer radius and filled with D2 or hydrogen-tritium (HT) gas. The experimental radius and velocity vs time, neutron yield, burn averaged ion temperature (Tion), burn width, and self-emission image size were compared to one-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) simulations. Our 2D simulations suggest that the mixing of glass from the fill tube was the dominant source of impurity in the gas region of the capsule during burn, along with fuel–ablator mix. The mass of glass mixed in is about 5–10 ng. Our 2D simulations capture most of the yield trends from different degradation mechanisms, and they match the observed burn width and Tion measurements. Our 2D models match all the available data to within 2.5 times the normalized experimental error for 19 of 20 capsules.

Funder

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics

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