University of Hawai‘i

PISALE Code Lab

Expanding hohlraum cooling ring.
Plate heated from left producing blowoff and rear surface spall. Mesh using AMR is shown in lower half of image.

A complex multimaterial simulation of a laser heated target including use of void to create fragments. Model 1/32 of target due to symmetry.
A 25-micron diameter Ta droplet incident on a Be plate.

Droplet formation from piniched coluumn.
Surface tension restoring droplet shape.

The PISALE team acknowledges resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and acknowledges the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin for providing HPC resources that have contributed to our research.