Plasma kinetics in magnetised laser driven plasmas

在我的博士项目中，我将研究磁场对高能量密度等离子体的影响。该项目由奈杰尔·伍尔西教授和克里斯·里杰斯博士指导，研究磁化激光驱动等离子体中的等离子体动力学。这是因为目前的研究表明，在惯性约束聚变过程中对热点进行磁化可能有助于限制传导损失，这是在惯性约束聚变过程中实现点火的关键障碍。然而，虽然磁场的应用可能有助于限制这一效应，但它也引入了其他尚未很好理解的物理效应(例如Nernst)。进行降低复杂性的实验来研究这些影响，将使我们能够对磁化运输的动力学模型进行基准测试，这些模型可以并入磁流体动力学模拟。这项研究可以应用于磁化高能量密度物理中的各种问题。

In my PhD project Plasma Kinetics in Magnetised Laser-Driven Plasmas, supervised by Prof. Nigel Woolsey and Dr. Chris Ridgers, I will be investigating the effect of magnetic fields on high-energy-density plasmas. This is motivated by current research that suggests magnetising the hot spot during inertial confinement fusion may help limit conduction losses, a key hurdle in achieving ignition during inertial confinement fusion. However, while the application of magnetic fields may help limit this effect it also introduces other physical effects (e.g. Nernst) that are not well understood. Performing reduced complexity experiments to investigate these effects will allow us to benchmark kinetic models of magnetised transport, which can be incorporated into magneto-hydrodynamic simulations. This research can be applied to a variety of problems in magnetised high-energy-density physics.