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Interaction of high-power laser pulses with low-density targets in experiments with the PALS installation

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Numerical modeling of experiments on the interaction of high-power pulses with low-density porous media is considered. The experimental data were obtained by means of the PALS iodine laser (pulse energy up to 200 J and pulse duration of 0.4 ns). The original density of the porous medium varied from 2.25 to 18 µg/cm3. A new physico-mathematical model of such plasma is proposed, two-dimensional computations are performed, and good agreement between the calculated and experimental data is shown

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Original Russian Text © A.I. Lebo, I.G. Lebo, 2009, published in Matematicheskoe Modelirovanie, 2009, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 75–91.

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Lebo, A.I., Lebo, I.G. Interaction of high-power laser pulses with low-density targets in experiments with the PALS installation. Math Models Comput Simul 1, 724–738 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2070048209060076

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