This schedule will be adjusted to fit in some work by students using a simulation code. Students who want to learn to do simulations should bring a Mac or PC laptop.
A typical day will include: a two-hour morning lecture, a two-hour afternoon lecture, and time for questions and disucssion.
The opening two-hour lecture will be Sunday evening August 8.
August 21 will feature a closing lecture followed by a picnic.
Preliminary Schedule of Lectures
August 8. Introduction to High Energy Density Physics
August 9a. Ch. 2: The fundamental equations and choosing which ones to use
August 9b, 10a Ch. 3: Fermions, Ion-sphere regime
Ionization balance, Thermodynamics of Ionizing plasmas,
Thomas-Fermi model, The EOS Landscape
August 10b Ch. 4: Shocks
August 11 Break
August 12 Ch 4: Rarefactions, self-similar waves,
blast waves, complex phenomena
August 13 Ch. 5: Rayleigh Taylor Instability
Kelvin Helmholtz, Richtmyer Meshkov, & Turbulence
August 14a Ch. 6: Radiative Transfer
August 14b, 16 Ch. 7: Radiation hydrodynamics: Basics, waves,
August 15 Break
August 16 Ch. 7: Fluid dynamics of radiative shocks
Radiative transfer in radiative shocks
August 17 Ch. 8: Laser-Plasma interactions,
Ablation, Hohlraums, Z-pinches
August 18 Break
August 19 Ch. 9: Inertial Fusion
August 20 Ch. 11: Relativistic plasmas
August 21 Ch. 10: Experimental Astrophysics
Closing Picnic