Temperature (left) and density
(right) at four different times in the simulation of our experiments. The radiation is incident from the
left. The initial neon gas density is 1018 cm-3. Note the shock
waves launched from the mylar
walls at late times. Note also the
radiation wave (as evidenced by the
temperature gradient) traversing the gas at t=100 ns.
Hydro
simulations of the gas cell