Description
Session Chair: Aidan Thompson
Material properties of warm dense matter, like equation of state and conductivity, are needed for modeling stars, fusion plasmas, and high-energy-density experiments. Since the beginning of this field, average atom models have been used to provide such data. In this talk, I will give an abridged introduction, historical perspective, and review of modern average atom models and methods. I will...
Average-atom models are an essential tool in modelling the warm dense matter regime, because they can be used to compute key quantities, such as equation-of-state data, for a fraction of the computational cost of higher-fidelity simulations such as DFT-MD. However, a variety of different models exist, and it is important to benchmark these models to understand their limitations and expected...
