PSFC / JA-17-15 Numerical modeling of laser-driven experiments that aim to demonstrate magnetic field amplification via turbulent dynamo

This work was supported in part at the University of Chicago by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under contract B523820 to the NNSA ASC/Alliances Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes; the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. DOE, under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357; the U.S. DOE NNSA ASC through the Argonne Institute for Computing in Science under field work proposal 57789; the U.S. DOE NNSA through the NLUF grant No. DE-NA0002724; and the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant PHY-0903997. Support from AWE plc., the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant numbers EP/M022331/1 and EP/N014472/1) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom is acknowledged. Awards of computer time were provided by the DOE Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) and ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) programs. This research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. The research and materials incorporated in this work were partially developed at the National Laser Users Facility at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics, with financial support from the U.S. Department of Energy under Cooperative Agreement DE-NA0001944. Reproduction, translation, publication, use and disposal, in whole or in part, by or for the United States government is permitted. PSFC/JA-17-15