Conveners
Plenary Thurs - Thomas Mehlhorn (2019 Peter Haas Award)
- Ronald Gilgenbach (University of Michigan)
1303.
Pulsed Power as a Science: Predictive simulations for beams, z-pinches, and other applications
Tom Mehlhorn
(Naval Research Laboratory)
27/06/2019, 08:30
Plenary Talk
Oral
This presentation will overview my 40 years of research and the people with whom I have had the pleasure of working, both domestically and internationally. In 1978 Sandia’s electron beam fusion program emerged from a weapons simulator community that was machine-oriented and relied on design principles and “JCM” criteria. Simulation tools were primarily used retrospectively. Fusions’...