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Shock compression of strongly correlated oxides: A liquid-regime equation of state for cerium(IV) oxide

Physical Review B

Weck, Philippe F.; Cochrane, Kyle C.; Root, Seth R.; Lane, J.M.; Shulenburger, Luke N.; Carpenter, John H.; Sjostrom, Travis; Mattsson, Thomas M.; Vogler, Tracy V.

The shock Hugoniot for full-density and porous CeO2 was investigated in the liquid regime using ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations with Erpenbeck's approach based on the Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions. The phase space was sampled by carrying out NVT simulations for isotherms between 6000 and 100 000 K and densities ranging from ρ=2.5 to 20g/cm3. The impact of on-site Coulomb interaction corrections +U on the equation of state (EOS) obtained from AIMD simulations was assessed by direct comparison with results from standard density functional theory simulations. Classical molecular dynamics (CMD) simulations were also performed to model atomic-scale shock compression of larger porous CeO2 models. Results from AIMD and CMD compression simulations compare favorably with Z-machine shock data to 525 GPa and gas-gun data to 109 GPa for porous CeO2 samples. Using results from AIMD simulations, an accurate liquid-regime Mie-Grüneisen EOS was built for CeO2. In addition, a revised multiphase SESAME-Type EOS was constrained using AIMD results and experimental data generated in this work. This study demonstrates the necessity of acquiring data in the porous regime to increase the reliability of existing analytical EOS models.

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TYPE Journal Article YEAR 2018
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Absolute Hugoniot measurements for CH foams in the 2-9 Mbar range

Physics of Plasmas

Aglitskiy, Y.; Velikovich, A.L.; Karasik, M.; Schmitt, A.J.; Serlin, V.; Weaver, J.L.; Oh, J.; Obenschain, S.P.; Cochrane, Kyle C.

Absolute Hugoniot measurements for empty plastic foams at ∼10% of solid polystyrene density and supporting rad-hydro simulation results are reported. Planar foam slabs, ∼400 μm thick and ∼500 μm wide, some of which were covered with a 10 μm solid plastic ablator, were directly driven by 4 ns long Nike krypton-fluoride 248 nm wavelength laser pulses that produced strong shock waves in the foam. The shock and mass velocities in our experiments were up to 104 km/s and 84 km/s, respectively, and the shock pressures up to ∼9 Mbar. The motion of the shock and ablation fronts was recorded using side-on monochromatic x-ray imaging radiography. The steadiness of the observed shock and ablation fronts within ∼1% has been verified. The Hugoniot data inferred from our velocity measurements agree with the predictions of the SESAME and CALEOS equation-of-state models near the highest pressure ∼9 Mbar and density compression ratio ∼5. In the lower pressure range 2-5 Mbar, a lower shock density compression is observed than that predicted by the models. Possible causes for this discrepancy are discussed.

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TYPE Journal Article YEAR 2018
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The electro-thermal stability of tantalum relative to aluminum and titanium in cylindrical liner ablation experiments at 550 kA

Physics of Plasmas

Steiner, Adam M.; Campbell, Paul C.; Yager-Elorriaga, David A.; Cochrane, Kyle C.; Mattsson, Thomas M.; Jordan, Nicholas M.; McBride, Ryan D.; Lau, Y.Y.; Gilgenbach, Ronald M.

Presented are the results from the liner ablation experiments conducted at 550 kA on the Michigan Accelerator for Inductive Z-Pinch Experiments. These experiments were performed to evaluate a hypothesis that the electrothermal instability (ETI) is responsible for the seeding of magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and that the cumulative growth of ETI is primarily dependent on the material-specific ratio of critical temperature to melting temperature. This ratio is lower in refractory metals (e.g., tantalum) than in non-refractory metals (e.g., aluminum or titanium). The experimental observations presented herein reveal that the plasma-vacuum interface is remarkably stable in tantalum liner ablations. This stability is particularly evident when contrasted with the observations from aluminum and titanium experiments. These results are important to various programs in pulsed-power-driven plasma physics that depend on liner implosion stability. Examples include the magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) program and the cylindrical dynamic material properties program at Sandia National Laboratories, where liner experiments are conducted on the 27-MA Z facility.

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Extension of the Hugoniot and analytical release model of α -quartz to 0.2-3 TPa

Journal of Applied Physics

Desjarlais, Michael P.; Knudson, Marcus D.; Cochrane, Kyle C.

In recent years, α-quartz has been used prolifically as an impedance matching standard in shock wave experiments in the multi-Mbar regime (1 Mbar = 100 GPa = 0.1 TPa). This is due to the fact that above ∼90-100 GPa along the principal Hugoniot α-quartz becomes reflective, and thus, shock velocities can be measured to high precision using velocity interferometry. The Hugoniot and release of α-quartz have been studied extensively, enabling the development of an analytical release model for use in impedance matching. However, this analytical release model has only been validated over a range of 300-1200 GPa (0.3-1.2 TPa). Here, we extend this analytical model to 200-3000 GPa (0.2-3 TPa) through additional α-quartz Hugoniot and release measurements, as well as first-principles molecular dynamics calculations.

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TYPE Journal Article YEAR 2017
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