Recently, much effort has been dedicated to the improvement of models and modeling
choices utilized in radiation hydrodynamic simulations of direct drive inertial confinement …

Targets have been designed that produce moderate to high gain when directly driven by
lasers. The intrinsic sensitivity of these targets to hydro instabilities is found using the FAST …

Physical experiment design and optimization is very essential for laser driven inertial
confinement fusion due to the high cost of each shot. However, only limited experiments with …

We reinvestigate the role that laser wavelength plays in driving inertial confinement fusion
(ICF) targets. Different assumptions underlie previous analytic frameworks that provide …

Accurate and self-consistent knowledge of material properties under high-energy-density
(HED) conditions is crucial to reliably understand and design inertial confinement fusion …

Direct-drive inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is expected to demonstrate high gain on the
National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the next decade and is a leading candidate for inertial …

Computer models of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions play an essential role in
experimental design and interpretation as well as our understanding of fundamental physics …

A series of two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations with speckled laser drivers was
carried out to study hot electron generation in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion on …

The first indirect drive Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) experiments on the Laser
Megajoule facility were carried out with approximately 150 kJ of laser energy distributed on …

The effect of the laser ray incidence angle on the mass ablation rate and ablation pressure
of planar inertial confinement fusion (ICF) targets is explored. In this work, a modified version …