Low-density foams have a wide variety of applications in the fields of inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics. However, direct simulations of laser interaction with foam targets are difficult and computationally expensive due to the necessity to spatially resolve the density differences in the foam microstructure in order to capture the underlying physical phenomena....
Low density porous materials are considered in the inertial confinement fusion studies as a promising material for smoothing laser beam intensity modulations and creation of spherical targets filled with a liquid deuterium-tritium fuel. However, the role of intrinsic structural foam inhomogeneities on seeding instabilities is not known. Experimental studies and modelling of the time of foam...
Low density foams have interesting properties that make them attractive for fundamental studies of laser plasma interaction and for various applications such as inertial confinement fusion and bright sources of X-ray emission. However, the process of transformation of a cold foam into a hot plasma is complicated and not well-known. Experiments and numerical simulations show that the ionization...
First released in 2015, the particle-in-cell code Smilei [1] has grown into a high-performance, user-friendly, multi-purpose tool for laser-plasma kinetic simulations. Production runs have started in 2018, and are now commonly carried out by tens of teams across the world.
In the past four years, significant improvements have been brought to the code. Additional physics has been introduced:...
