Citation
Rodriguez Perez, Rafael and Gil de la Fe, Juan Miguel and Espinosa, G. and Florido, Ricardo and Mendoza, M.A and Martel, Pablo and Mínguez Torres, Emilio and Symes, D.R. and Hohenberger, M. and Smith, R.A.
(2013).
Determination and analysis of plasma radiative properties for numerical simulations of laboratory radiative blast waves launched in xenon clusters.
"Journal of Spectroscopy and Dynamics", v. 3
(n. 3);
pp. 1-8.
ISSN 2249-2704.
Abstract
Radiative shock waves play a pivotal role in the transport energy into the stellar medium. This fact has led to many efforts to scale the astrophysical phenomena to accessible laboratory conditions and their study has been highlighted as an area requiring further experimental investigations. Low density material with high atomic mass is suitable to achieve radiative regime, and, therefore, low density xenon plasmas are commonly used for the medium in which the radiative shocks propagate. The knowledge of the plasma radiative properties is crucial for the correct understanding and for the hydrodynamic simulations of radiative shocks. In this work, we perform an analysis of the radiative properties of xenon plasmas in a range of matter densities and electron temperatures typically found in laboratory experiments of radiative shocks launched in xenon plasmas. Furthermore, for a particular experiment, our analysis is applied to make a diagnostics of the electron temperatures of the radiative shocks since they could not be experimentally measured