Abstract
The methods by which we model high temperature plasmas will be described. The code XRASER is run on the Cray computers to simulate the kinetics, hydrodynamics, and radiation transfer in the high temperature plasma. Certain input is required by XRASER in the form of an atomic data file. The atomic data files are created using a variety of production atomic physics codes such as YODA. YODA will generate detailed energy levels, oscillator strengths, photoionization cross sections, collisional excitation and ionization cross section, and auger rates using relativistic multi‐configuration wavefunctions. This information is stored in an atomic data base. The code ADAM reads the atomic data from the data base and fills in the requested number of Rydberg energy levels based on a scaled hydrogenic approximation. ADAM adds the oscillator strengths, photoionization cross sections, and collisional excitation and ionization cross sections to connect the Rydberg levels with each other and also to connect the Rydberg levels with the detailed levels provided by YODA. The output of ADAM is a format which XRASER understands. Using the atomic data file and a generator which specifies the plasma, XRASER is run to determine the time dependent properties of the plasma.
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