2025/02/11 by Ethan Smith, Smith, Ethan, Evan Bursch +3
Engineering · Mathematics · #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory #Numerical methods in inverse problems #Radiative Heat Transfer Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.07930
openalex publication_date 2025/02/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We have extended the radiation diffusion model of Hammer and Rosen to diverging spherical and cylindrical geometries. The effect of curvilinear geometry on the supersonic, expanding wavefront increases as the internal radius of a spherical or cylindrical shell approaches zero. Small spherical geometries are important for modeling systems at the size scale of ICF capsules, at these scales existing quasi-analytic models for planar geometry significantly disagree with the results of simulation. With this method, the benefits of rapid iteration can be applied to common spherical systems at much smaller length scales. We present comparisons between numerical diffusion solutions and the analytic model to give ranges of applicability for the model.