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  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For visionary leadership in experiments on the National Ignition Facility laser and innovative work in understanding instabilities in high energy density and inertial confinement fusion plasmas leading to the first laboratory demonstration of an alphaheatingdominated, thermonuclear plasma producing a fusion energy exceeding its total stored energy

Overview

Omar Hurricane is affiliated with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans several fields including physics and astronomy, engineering, and earth and planetary sciences. Within these fields, their work intersects with specific subfields such as nuclear and high energy physics, mechanics of materials, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their research topics prominently include laser-plasma interactions and diagnostics, laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma, and cold fusion and nuclear reactions. These areas reflect a focus on interactions involving high-energy laser systems and nuclear processes.

Among their publications, a notable paper is titled "Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded In An Inertial Fusion Experiment", published in 2022 at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS). This paper deals with experimental progress in inertial fusion and has received citations in the scientific community.

Omar Hurricane has frequently published in the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), which represents a key venue for dissemination of their work.

  • Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded In An Inertial Fusion Experiment (2022, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science - ICOPS)

They have been recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2016. The citation for this award highlights leadership in National Ignition Facility laser experiments and contributions to understanding instabilities in high energy density and inertial confinement fusion plasmas.

Best Publications

  • Fuel gain exceeding unity in an inertially confined fusion implosion

    O. A. Hurricane;D. A. Callahan;D. T. Casey;P. M. Celliers

  • Inertial-confinement fusion with lasers

    R. Betti;O. A. Hurricane

  • Fusion Energy Output Greater than the Kinetic Energy of an Imploding Shell at the National Ignition Facility.

    S. Le Pape;L. F. Berzak Hopkins;L. Divol;A. Pak

  • Three-dimensional simulations of low foot and high foot implosion experiments on the National Ignition Facility

    D. S. Clark;C. R. Weber;J. L. Milovich;J. D. Salmonson

  • Turbulent mixing and transition criteria of flows induced by hydrodynamic instabilities

    Ye Zhou;Timothy T. Clark;Daniel S. Clark;S. Gail Glendinning

  • Review of pulsed power-driven high energy density physics research on Z at Sandia

    D. B. Sinars;M. A. Sweeney;C. S. Alexander;D. J. Ampleford

  • The high-foot implosion campaign on the National Ignition Facilitya)

    O. A. Hurricane;D. A. Callahan;D. T. Casey;E. L. Dewald

  • Symmetry control of an indirectly driven high-density-carbon implosion at high convergence and high velocity

    L. Divol;A. Pak;L. F. Berzak Hopkins;S. Le Pape

  • Demonstration of High Performance in Layered Deuterium-Tritium Capsule Implosions in Uranium Hohlraums at the National Ignition Facility.

    T. Doppner;D. A. Callahan;O. A. Hurricane;D. E. Hinkel

  • Observation of a Kelvin-helmholtz instability in a high-energy-density plasma on the omega laser.

    E. C. Harding;J. F. Hansen;O. A. Hurricane;R. P. Drake

  • First measurements of hydrodynamic instability growth in indirectly driven implosions at ignition-relevant conditions on the National Ignition Facility.

    V A Smalyuk;D T Casey;D S Clark;M J Edwards

  • An in-flight radiography platform to measure hydrodynamic instability growth in inertial confinement fusion capsules at the National Ignition Facility

    K. S. Raman;V. A. Smalyuk;D. T. Casey;S. W. Haan

  • An experimental testbed for the study of hydrodynamic issues in supernovae

    H. F. Robey;J. O. Kane;B. A. Remington;R. P. Drake

  • Exploring the limits of case-to-capsule ratio, pulse length, and picket energy for symmetric hohlraum drive on the National Ignition Facility Laser

    D. A. Callahan;O. A. Hurricane;J. E. Ralph;C. A. Thomas

  • Approaching a burning plasma on the NIF

    O. A. Hurricane;P. T. Springer;P. K. Patel;D. A. Callahan

  • High-Performance Indirect-Drive Cryogenic Implosions at High Adiabat on the National Ignition Facility

    K. L. Baker;C. A. Thomas;D. T. Casey;S. Khan

  • Record Energetics for an Inertial Fusion Implosion at NIF.

    A B Zylstra;A L Kritcher;O A Hurricane;D A Callahan

  • Reduced instability growth with high-adiabat high-foot implosions at the National Ignition Facility

    D. T. Casey;V. A. Smalyuk;K. S. Raman;J. L. Peterson

  • Indirect drive ignition at the National Ignition Facility

    N. B. Meezan;M. J. Edwards;O. A. Hurricane;P. K. Patel

  • An analytic asymmetric-piston model for the impact of mode-1 shell asymmetry on ICF implosions

    O. A. Hurricane;D. T. Casey;O. Landen;A. L. Kritcher

  • Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic detonation: Part I

    O. A. Hurricane;B. H. Fong;B. H. Fong;S. C. Cowley

Frequent Co-Authors

P. K. Patel
P. K. Patel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Otto Landen
Otto Landen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Bruce Remington
Bruce Remington Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
S. W. Haan
S. W. Haan Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peter M. Celliers
Peter M. Celliers Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
B. J. MacGowan
B. J. MacGowan Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Michael Stadermann
Michael Stadermann Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
J. P. Knauer
J. P. Knauer University of Rochester
A. J. Mackinnon
A. J. Mackinnon Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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