Bulletin of the American Physical Society
64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Volume 67, Number 15
Monday–Friday, October 17–21, 2022; Spokane, Washington
Session TO06: Magnetized High-energy-density Plasma
9:30 AM–12:30 PM,
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Room: Ballroom 111 C
Chair: Alla Safronova, UNR
Abstract: TO06.00001 : Simulations of the MARZ (Magnetically Ablated Reconnection on Z) platform*
9:30 AM–9:42 AM
Presenter:
Jack D Hare
(MIT PSFC)
Authors:
Jack D Hare
(MIT PSFC)
Rishabh Datta
(MIT PSFC)
Jeremy P Chittenden
(Imperial College London)
Aidan C Crilly
(Imperial College London)
William R Fox
(Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Jack W Halliday
(Imperial College London)
Christopher A Jennings
(Sandia National Laboratories)
Hantao Ji
(Princeton University)
Carolyn C Kuranz
(University of Michigan)
Sergey V Lebedev
(Imperial College London)
Dmitri A Uzdensky
(University of Colorado, Boulder)
Katherine Chandler
(Sandia National Laboratories)
Clayton E Myers
(Sandia National Laboratories)
In this talk, we present 2D and 3D resistive MHD simulations of the MARZ platform using the GORGON code, using either a recombination radiative loss model, or a more complex model based on tabulated emissivities and opacities. The simulations predict the formation of a hot, dense layer with super-Alfvénic outflows. Plasmoids form within the layer due to the tearing instability, the current primarily flows through the plasmoids, resulting in localized heating. As the layer density increases, the layer undergoes a rapid radiative collapse due to the removal of the layer thermal pressure by radiative cooling. These simulations were used to design the MARZ platform and were post processed using the XP2 code to create synthetic diagnostics which were used to inform the experimental design.
**SNL is managed and operated by NTESS under DOE NNSA contract DE-NA0003525.
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