TY - JOUR
T1 - The WASP Model: A Micro-Macro System of Wave-Schrödinger-Plasma Equations for Filamentation
JO - Communications in Computational Physics
VL - 2
SP - 406
EP - 440
PY - 2011
DA - 2011/09
SN - 9
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.071009.300410a
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7505.html
KW - 
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">In this paper, we model laser-gas interactions and propagation in some extreme
regimes. After a mathematical study of a micro-macro Maxwell-Schrödinger
model [1] for short, high-frequency and intense laser-gas interactions, we propose to
improve this model by adding a plasma equation in order to precisely take into account
free electron effects. We examine if such a model can predict and explain complex
structures such as filaments, on a physical and numerical basis. In particular, we
present in this paper a first numerical observation of nonlinear focusing effects using
an ab-initio gas representation and linking our results with existing nonlinear models.</p>