<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hello,<br></div><div>just to contribute to the conversation, <!--StartFragment--> in the example1d.par, the geometry is cartesian.<!--EndFragment--> I haven't seen explicitely a flash.par input deck including 1D spherical geometry and laser energy deposition.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I'm not sure that it's possible so far unless mimicing a spherical geometry with cartesian/cylindrical mesh but not confident of catching the physics accurently. <!--EndFragment--> <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>De: </b>"Zach Barfield" <zachbarfield60@gmail.com><br><b>À: </b>"Andy Sha Liao" <andy@f.energy><br><b>Cc: </b>"flash-users" <flash-users@flash.uchicago.edu><br><b>Envoyé: </b>Lundi 16 Août 2021 16:39:16<br><b>Objet: </b>Re: [FLASH-USERS] Laser across a 1D domain<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr">Yes,<br><div>In example1d.par the laser is a single ray that propagates along the radius. I am interested in sending a spatially-varying (supergaussian) laser across the radius.</div><br><div>-Zach</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 10:20 AM Andy Sha Liao <andy@f.energy> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Zach,<br><br><div>Have you looked at example1d.par in LaserSlab? </div><br><br><div>Andy</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 9:05 AM Zach Barfield <<a href="mailto:zachbarfield60@gmail.com" target="_blank">zachbarfield60@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<br><div>Does anyone know how to simulate a laser impinging <i>across</i> the radius of a 1D radial domain?</div><div>It seems to me that FLASH has no capability of including dimensionality in the laser beam when using a 1D geometry, is this true?</div><br><div>I am using a 1D radial domain because I would like to simulate the laser heating of a cylinder of gas with an approximately infinite z-dimension. I am only interested in the temporal evolution of the radial profile.</div><br><div>Cheers,</div><div>Zach Barfield</div></div>
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