Overview of computer simulation on laser fusion in China

Laser fusion research in China is organized by the National High-Tech Inertial Confinement Fusion Committee. Computer simulation is one of the most important research fields supported by the Committee. In the last decade, much effort has been made to develop the computer simulation code series named LARED. In recent years, a number of numerical simulations using LARED have been carried out and the simulation is checked by experiments done at the laser facility SG-II. In the present paper, we introduce the basic physics models used in LARED, the code structures, and some simulation results given by the code series.