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The growing interest in controlled nuclear energy has been accompanied by a requirement for increased knowledge of the behavior of materials under high energy density conditions. The efficiency of fission reactors can be improved with coolant fluids capable of maintaining large molecular densities at high temperatures and moderate pressures. The high melting points of most of metals place the liquid state at temperatures too high for easy experimental investigation. A relatively complete mapping of the liquid region to include location of the liquid-vapor coexistence curve through the critical point is available only for Na, K, Rb, Cs, and Hg, and for these not all measurements are in agreement. For most metals the critical region lies at higher pressures and temperatures than are accessible to conventional experimental techniques. To provide needed engineering data and to stimulate theoretical understanding of low density liquid metals, an investigation of the equilibrium properties of metals above 2000 K and 0.1 GPa is the objective of this work.
Using intense magnetic pressure, a method was developed to launch flyer plates to velocities in excess of 20 km/s. This technique was used to perform plate-impact, shock wave experiments on cryogenic liquid deuterium (LD2) to examine its high-pressure equation of state (EOS). Using an impedance matching method, Hugoniot measurements were obtained in the pressure range of 30-70 GPa. The results of these experiments disagree with previously reported Hugoniot measurements of LD2 in the pressure range above (almost equal to)40 GPa, but are in good agreement with first principles, ab-initio models for hydrogen and its isotopes.
Location of the liquid-vapor critical point (c.p.) is one of the key features of equation of state models used in simulating high energy density physics and pulsed power experiments. For example, material behavior in the location of the vapor dome is critical in determining how and when coronal plasmas form in expanding wires. Transport properties, such as conductivity and opacity, can vary an order of magnitude depending on whether the state of the material is inside or outside of the vapor dome. Due to the difficulty in experimentally producing states near the vapor dome, for all but a few materials, such as Cesium and Mercury, the uncertainty in the location of the c.p. is of order 100%. These states of interest can be produced on Z through high-velocity shock and release experiments. For example, it is estimated that release adiabats from (almost equal to)1000 GPa in aluminum would skirt the vapor dome allowing estimates of the c.p. to be made. This is within the reach of Z experiments (flyer plate velocity of (almost equal to)30 km/s). Recent high-fidelity EOS models and hydrocode simulations suggest that the dynamic two-phase flow behavior observed in initial scoping experiments can be reproduced, providing a link between theory and experiment. Experimental identification of the c.p. in aluminum would represent the first measurement of its kind in a dynamic experiment. Furthermore, once the c.p. has been experimentally determined it should be possible to probe the electrical conductivity, opacity, reflectivity, etc. of the material near the vapor dome, using a variety of diagnostics. We propose a combined experimental and theoretical investigation with the initial emphasis on aluminum.
An improved version of the GRAY three-phase equation of state for metals is presented in this report. The Grover model for liquid metals is modified by employing a single continuous representation of the specific heat thereby eliminating the somewhat artificial hot liquid region. A soft sphere representation is incorporated into the modified van der Waals equation of state for the vapor region yielding a model which is physically realistic at high temperatures and more compatible with the Gover model. A continuous and thermodynamically consistent join procedure is inserted between the Gover liquid and van der Walls vapor regions. This new join procedure does not distort the van der Waals model in the vicinity of the critical point and allows the vapor to limit correctly at high temperatures and volumes. (Author).
We have measured the equation of state (EoS) of osmium to 75 GPa under hydrostatic conditions at room temperature using angle dispersive x-ray diffraction. A least-squares fit of the data using a third order Birch-Murnaghan EoS yields K0 = 411 ± 6 GPa and K'0 = 4.0 ± 0.2, showing osmium is in fact more compressible than diamond. Most importantly, we have documented an anomaly in the compressibility at 20.3 GPa associated with a large discontinuity in the first pressure derivative of the c/a ratio. This discontinuity likely arises from the collapse of the small hole-ellipsoid in the Fermi surface near the L point. There has been much interest in the possibility of a Lifshitz [1] or electronic topological transition (ETT) in zinc at high-pressure near 10 GPa. Interestingly, while the experimental data remain somewhat ambiguous [2-5], most simulations suggest the ETT exists in this pressure range [6-8]. Recently, Steinle-Neumann et al. [8] have shown that the transition arises from changes in the band structure near the high-symmetry point K where three bands cross the Fermi surface upon compression. Thus one might expect that other hcp metals should exhibit similar phenomena. The hcp 4d and 5d transition elements Re, Os and Ru are known to be among the densest and stiffest metals [9,10] suggesting that these might in fact be poor candidates in which to look for such effects. In osmium however, experimental and theoretical results [11,12] have shown the existence of small local maxima in the band structure just above the Fermi energy near the high-symmetry point L on the zone boundary [11]. These structures might potentially fall below the Fermi energy upon compression and give rise to an ETT. Osmium is of further interest as recent EoS measurements by Cynn et al. [13] have suggested that Os (K0 = 462 GPa and K'0 = 2.4) has the lowest known compressibility, lower even than diamond (K0 = 446 GPa and K'0 = 3) [14]. This conclusion has strong implications for the nature of the metallic bond in Os and paradoxically implies that the latter, where bonding electrons are delocalized, can be less compressible than the covalent bond, where bonding electrons are localized. The difficulty in supporting such a claim arises due to the fact that in all EoS studies of low compressibility materials, where the maximum experimental pressures are only a small fraction of the value of K0, there exists a direct trade off between low values of K'0 and high values of K0. Accurate investigations of K0 and K'0 simultaneously in materials such as Os requires very high resolution studies in the low pressure region (K0) and high pressure data to constrain K'0 [15]. In order to clarify these points, we have undertaken an experimental study of the EoS of osmium using angle dispersive x-ray diffraction (ADX) with ultra-high accuracy.
We present results of the first measurements of density, shock speed and particle speed in compressed liquid deuterium at pressures in excess in 1 Mbar. We have performed equation of state (EOS) measurements on the principal Hugoniot of liquid deuterium from 0.2 to 2 Mbar. We employ high-resolution radiography to simultaneously measure the compression of the sample. We are also attempting to measure the color temperature of the shocked D2. Key to this effort is the development and implementation of interferometric methods in order to carefully characterized the profile and steadiness of the shock and the level of preheat in the samples. These experiments allow us to differentiate between the accepted EOS model for D2 and a new model which included the effects of molecular dissociation on the EOS.
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