Thin-foil expansion into a vacuum

P Mora - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2005 - APS
The collisionless expansion into a vacuum of a thin foil heated by an ultrashort laser pulse
and adiabatically cooling down is studied with a particular emphasis on the structure of the …

Formation of Rydberg atoms in an expanding ultracold neutral plasma

TC Killian, MJ Lim, S Kulin, R Dumke, SD Bergeson… - Physical review …, 2001 - APS
We study the formation of Rydberg atoms in expanding plasmas at temperatures of 1–1000
K and densities from 10 5–10 10 cm− 3. Up to 20% of the initially free charges recombine in …

Plasma oscillations and expansion of an ultracold neutral plasma

S Kulin, TC Killian, SD Bergeson, SL Rolston - Physical review letters, 2000 - APS
We report the observation of plasma oscillations in an ultracold neutral plasma. With this
collective mode we probe the electron density distribution and study the expansion of the …

Analytic solutions to the Vlasov equations for expanding plasmas

VF Kovalev, VY Bychenkov - Physical review letters, 2003 - APS
The renormalization-group approach is applied to derive an exact solution to the self-
consistent Vlasov kinetic equations for plasma particles in the quasineutral approximation …

Exact solution of Vlasov equations for quasineutral expansion of plasma bunch into vacuum

DS Dorozhkina, VE Semenov - Physical review letters, 1998 - APS
In the quasineutral approximation an exact self-similar solution of the three-dimensional
Vlasov equations for electrons and ions with self-consistent electric field is obtained. This …

Similarity properties and scaling laws of radiation hydrodynamic flows in laboratory astrophysics

E Falize, C Michaut, S Bouquet - The Astrophysical Journal, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The spectacular recent development of modern high-energy density laboratory facilities
which concentrate more and more energy in millimetric volumes allows the astrophysical …

[HTML][HTML] Fast ion acceleration in a foil plasma heated by a multi-picosecond high intensity laser

N Iwata, K Mima, Y Sentoku, A Yogo, H Nagatomo… - Physics of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We study the one-dimensional expansion of a thin foil plasma irradiated by a high intensity
laser with multi-picosecond (ps) pulse durations by using particle-in-cell simulation …

Collisionless expansion of a Gaussian plasma into a vacuum

P Mora - Physics of plasmas, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
The collisionless expansion into a vacuum of a one-dimensional Gaussian plasma bunch of
size much larger than the Debye length is studied both analytically and with a hybrid …

Quasineutral plasma expansion into infinite vacuum as a model for parallel ELM transport

D Moulton, P Ghendrih, W Fundamenski… - Plasma Physics and …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
An analytic solution for the expansion of a plasma into vacuum is assessed for its relevance
to the parallel transport of edge localized mode (ELM) filaments along field lines. This …

Electron properties in collisionless mesothermal plasma expansion: Fully kinetic simulations

Y Hu, J Wang - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulation of collisionless mesothermal
plasma expansion with a focus on the macroscopic electron properties. The results show …