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 July 20.
August 2 will feature a closing lecture followed by a picnic.
Preliminary Schedule of Lectures
July 20. Introduction to High Energy Density Physics
July 21a. Ch. 2: The fundamental equations and choosing which ones to use
July 21b, 22a Ch. 3: Fermions, Ion-sphere regime
Ionization balance, Thermodynamics of Ionizing plasmas,
Thomas-Fermi model, The EOS Landscape
July 22b Ch. 4: Shocks
July 23 Break
July 24 Ch 4: Rarefactions, self-similar waves,
blast waves, complex phenomena
July 25 Ch. 5: Rayleigh Taylor Instability
Kelvin Helmholtz, Richtmyer Meshkov, & Turbulence
July 26a Ch. 6: Radiative Transfer
July 26b,28 Ch. 7: Radiation hydrodynamics: Basics, waves,
July 27 Break
July 28 Ch. 7: Fluid dynamics of radiative shocks
Radiative transfer in radiative shocks
July 29 Ch. 8: Laser-Plasma interactions,
Ablation, Hohlraums, Z-pinches
July 30 Break
July 31 Ch. 9: Inertial Fusion
Aug. 1 Ch. 11: Relativistic plasmas
Aug. 2 Ch. 10: Experimental Astrophysics
Closing Picnic