Laboratory facilities employing high pulsed currents and voltages, and called generally
“pulsed-power facilities,” allow experimenters to produce a variety of hydrodynamical …

Self-heating thermionic hollow cathodes are essential components in modern plasma
thrusters. To fully understand their operation, three interdependent physical domains must …

A gas-filled cylindrical liner z-pinch configuration has been used to drive convergent
radiative shock waves into different gases at velocities of 20–50 km s− 1. On application of …

Numerical simulations of laboratory astrophysics experiments on plasma flows require
plasma microscopic properties that are obtained by means of an atomic kinetic model. This …

Abstract Single-core-hole (SCH) and double-core-hole (DCH) spectroscopy is investigated
systematically for neon gas in the interaction with ultraintense x-ray pulses with photon …

The structure of planar shock waves propagating through argon, xenon, and krypton is
calculated using the direct simulation Monte Carlo method for Mach numbers 2, 5, and 10 …

The self-similar dynamics of the collision between radiative and adiabatic supersonic planar
flows are performed assuming homogeneous radiation cooling. New self-similar solutions …

This work is divided into two parts. In the first one, a study of radiative properties (such as
monochromatic and the Rosseland and Planck mean opacities, monochromatic emissivities …

Plasma radiative properties play a pivotal role both in nuclear fusion and astrophysics. They
are essential to analyze and explain experiments or observations and also in radiative …

Self-heating hollow cathodes are central components in modern electric thrusters. The
plasma discharge inside these devices heats the internal components, thus maintaining the …