Contents

• Major features
• Conventions and Units
• Supported facilities / target chambers
• Brief overview of typical project
• Sample problems
• Supported platforms
• Reporting bugs
• Revision history
• Known issuess
• User comments and suggestions

• Adding objects
• Deleting objects
• Copying objects
• Attaching objects
• Target Components Library
• Editing object parameters
• Applying clipping volumes
• Showing / hiding objects
• Selecting / deselecting for use in calculations
• Object Parameters Dialog
  • Position tab
    • Orientation Angles Calculator
  • Size/Gridding tab
  • Setting up Multi-Element Objects
  • Material Properties tab
  • Viewing tab
• Clipping Volume Parameters Dialog
  • Position tab
  • Size tab
• Importing / Exporting CAD files
• Target Positioning Viewers
  • OMEGA/EP TVS Viewers
  • NIF TAS Viewer
  • LMJ TAS Viewer
  • ORION TVS Viewer
  • Designating Objects as Stalks
• Target Assembly Viewer
• Target Component Positions Dialog
• Target Components Summary Table
• Port Positions Dialog
• Specifying orientation angles

• Adding / deleting chamber components
• Converting to Target Components
• Showing / hiding components
• Chamber Components Library
• Editing component parameters
• Chamber Component Parameters Dialog
  • Position tab
  • Size/Gridding tab
  • Viewing tab

4. Power Sources

• Target component self-emission
• Laser beams
  • Turning on / off
  • Showing / Hiding
  • Cluster configurations
  • Custom Laser Beams
    • OMEGA/EP Probe Beams
    • NIF ARC Beams
  • Energy Deposition Calculation Parameters
    • Direct laser light
    • Reflected laser light (Glint)
    • NIF unconverted laser light
  • Displaying beam spots on target
  • Beam Pointing Checks
• Laser Beam Parameters Dialog
  • Properties tab
  • Pointing tab
  • Energetics tab
  • Spatial Profile tab
    • Phase Plate Parameters
• Laser Beams Summary Dialog
• Laser Beam Capture/Clearance Reports
  • 3ω Capture Report
  • 3ω/1ω Clearance Report
  • 3ω/1ω Reflection Report
• OMEGA SRF Database
  • Export VISRAD Data to SRF File
  • Import SRF Data into VISRAD
  • Available SRF Data Viewer
  • Viewing SRF Laser Data
• NIF TaLIS Interference Checks
  • Importing data from CMT XML files
• Importing Laser Beam Data
  • Importing NIF CMT Pointing Data
  • Import Time-Dependent Beam Powers
  • Import Beam Energy Normalization Data

5. Multi-Timestep Simulations

• Setting up simulation time grid
• Configuring simulation parameters
• Running simulations
• Results datasets

6. Displaying Results

• Temperatures and flux distributions
• Material properties
• Source powers
• Transmission fractions
• Individual surface elements properties
• Surface elements tables and color contours
• Power summary table
• Incident radiation powers table

• Main Graphics Frame
• Time Selector
• Target Components List
• Laser Beams List
• Chamber Components List
• Snapshots Viewer
• Graphics Decorators
• Rulers / grid lines
• Toolbar buttons
• Graphics Viewing Controls
• Viewing Position and Color Bar Frame
• Engineering Views
• UnDo/ReDo buttons

• Workspace files
• Target Components Library files
• Chamber Components Library files
• Laser Beam Cluster Library files
• Laser Pulse Shape files
• CAD files
• Image files
• Preferences file
• Surface element flux files
• Surface element table files
• Reticle data file
• Laser beam data files
• Laser beam-target intersection points

• Tools:
  • Creating movies
  • Coordinate transformation tool
  • Line-target intersection points tool
  • Point-to-point distance tool
• Main Window Displays:
  • Displaying axes
  • Displaying clipping volumes
  • Displaying exploded views
  • Displaying surfaces as wireframe / fill
  • Displaying surfaces as flat / shaded
  • Setting color bar limits
  • Setting the Viewing Position
  • Cutaway views
• Custom Diagnostic Ports
• Diagnostic Ports Selector
• Memorized Views
• Lighting Systems
• Table data for time-dependent quantities
  • Reading multi-column data files
  • Analytic expressions
• Setting Preferences
• Activating and deactivating a license

10. Tutorials

11. Troubleshooting

12. PrismPLOT Manual

13. Glossary

14. Subject Index

15. Appendices

• VISRAD Overview (JQSRT 2003)
• Hohlraum Radiation Modeling (Phys. Plasmas 2005)
• Benchmark calculation: OMEGA Hohlraum Temperatures
• Benchmark calculation: OMEGA Capsule Symmetry
• Benchmark calculation: Ring Source
• Benchmark calculation: Laser Reflection