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For the reliable analysis and modelling of astrophysical, laser-produced and fusion plasmas, atomic data are required for a number of parameters, including energy levels, radiative rates and electron impact excitation rates. Such data are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-15 Km Aggarwal , Fp Keenan

We present an algorithm for solving the radiative transfer problem on massively parallel computers using adaptive mesh refinement and domain decomposition. The solver is based on the method of characteristics which requires an adaptive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-13 Lars Buntemeyer , Robi Banerjee , Thomas Peters , Mikhail Klassen , Ralph E. Pudritz

A great many observables seen in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions can be explained on the basis of statistical equilibrium. Calculations based on statistical equilibrium can be implemented in microcanonical ensemble (energy and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 C. B. Das , S. Das Gupta , W. G. Lynch , A. Z. Mekjian , M. B. Tsang

New X-ray observatories (Chandra and XMM-Newton) are providing a wealth of high-resolution X-ray spectra in which hydrogen- and helium-like ions are usually strong features. We present results from a new collisional-radiative plasma code,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Randall K. Smith , Nancy S. Brickhouse , Duane A. Liedahl , John C. Raymond

A reduced kinetic method (RKM) with a first-principle collision operator is introduced in a 1D2V planar geometry and implemented in a computationally inexpensive code to investigate non-local ion heat transport in multi-species plasmas. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Nicholas Mitchell , David Chapman , Christopher McDevitt , Martin Read , Grigory Kagan

New calculations of the energy levels, radiative transition rates and collisional excitation rates of \ion{Fe}{ix} have been carried out using the Flexible Atomic Code, paying close attention to experimentally identified levels and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Adam R Foster , Paola Testa

Understanding and modelling astrophysical plasmas on atomic levels while taking into account various assumptions (for example, collisional ionisation equilibrium or photoionisation equilibrium) became essential with the progress of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-10 L. Štofanová , J. Kaastra , M. Mehdipour , J. de Plaa

The dynamics of temporally modulated plasma boundary sheaths is studied in the intermediate radio frequency regime where the applied radio frequency and the ion plasma frequency are comparable. Two kinetic simulation codes are employed and…

Phenomena taking place in capacitively coupled plasmas with large electrodes and driven at very high frequencies are studied numerically utilizing a novel energy- and charge-conserving implicit fully electromagnetic particle-in-cell / Monte…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 D. Eremin , E. Kemaneci , M. Matsukuma , T. Mussenbrock , R. P. Brinkmann

We report calculations of energy levels, radiative rates and electron impact excitation cross sections and rates for transitions in Be-like Ti XIX. The GRASP (General-purpose Relativistic Atomic Structure Package) is adopted for calculating…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Km Aggarwal , Fp Keenan

A new code called VAAQP (Variational Average-Atom in Quantum Plasmas) is reported. The model as well as main results of previous studies are briefly recalled. The code is based on a new fully variational model of dense plasmas at…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 R. Piron , T. Blenski , B. Cichocki

We investigate the high-dimensional data clustering problem by proposing a novel and unsupervised representation learning model called Robust Flexible Auto-weighted Local-coordinate Concept Factorization (RFA-LCF). RFA-LCF integrates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Zhao Zhang , Yan Zhang , Sheng Li , Guangcan Liu , Meng Wang , Shuicheng Yan

Anomalies observed in the neutron spectral shift of high-yield shots at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) suggest the presence of suprathermal ions, implying that kinetic effects play a significant role in burning inertial confinement…

Quantum and collisional effects on the unstable spectrum of a relativistic electron beam-plasma system are investigated through a two-fluids model. Application is made to the near target center interaction of the relativistic electron beam…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Bret , F. J. Marín Fernández , J. M. Anfray

In this paper we present CRASH_alpha, the first radiative transfer code for cosmological application that follows the parallel propagation of Ly_alpha and ionizing photons. CRASH_alpha is a version of the continuum radiative transfer code…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-10 M. Pierleoni , A. Maselli , B. Ciardi

The parameter $W_\mathrm{a}$, which characterizes nuclear spin-dependent parity violation effects within the effective molecular spin-rotational Hamiltonian, was computed for the electronic ground state of radium fluoride (RaF) and found to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 T. A. Isaev , S. Hoekstra , R. Berger

This study presents a novel optimisation technique for atomic structure calculations using the Flexible Atomic Code, focussing on complex multielectron systems relevant to $r$-process nucleosynthesis and kilonova modelling. We introduce a…

We present a new hybrid algorithm implemented in the code CHIEF (Code Hybrid with Inertial Electron Fluid) for simulations of electron-ion plasmas. The algorithm treats the ions kinetically, modeled by the Particle-in-Cell (PiC) method, and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 P. A. Muñoz , N. Jain , P. Kilian , J. Büchner

The potential for laser-produced plasmas to yield fundamental insights into high energy density physics (HEDP) and deliver other useful applications can sometimes be frustrated by uncertainties in modeling the properties and behavior of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Chris Orban , Milad Fatenejad , Don Q. Lamb

The multi-fluid modelling of high-frequency waves in partially ionized plasmas has shown that the behavior of magnetohydrodynamics waves in the linear regime is heavily influenced by the collisional interaction between the different species…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas