In the double-cone ignition (DCI) inertial confinement fusion scheme, head-on collision of high density plasma jets is one of the most distinguished feature when compared with the traditional central ignition and fast ignition of inertial confinement fusion. However, the application of traditional hydrodynamic simulation methods become limited, due to serious plasma penetrations, mixing and kinetic physics that might occur in the collision process. To overcome such limitations, we propose a new simulation method for large-scale high density plasmas. This method takes advantages of modern particle-in-cell simulation techniques and binary Monte Carlo collisions, including both long-range collective electromagnetic fields and short-range particle-particle interactions. Especially, in this method, the restrictions of simulation grid size and time step, which usually appear in a fully kinetic description, are eliminated. In addition, collisional coupling and state-dependent coefficients, that are usually approximately used with different forms in fluid descriptions, are also removed in this method. Energy and momentum exchanges among particles and species, such as thermal conductions and frictions, are modelled by "first principle" kinetic approaches. The correctness and robustness of the new simulation method are verified, by comparing with fully kinetic simulations at small scales and purely hydrodynamic simulations at large scale. Following the conceptual design of the DCI scheme, the colliding process of two plasma jets with initial density of 100 g/cc, initial thermal temperature of 70 eV, and counterpropagating velocity at 300 km/s is investigated using this new simulation method. Quantitative values, including density increment, increased plasma temperature, confinement time at stagnation and conversion efficiency from the colliding kinetic energy to thermal energy, are obtained with a density increment of about three times, plasma temperature of 400 eV, confinement time at stagnation of 50 ps and conversion efficiency of 85%. These values agree with the recent experimental measurements at a reasonable range.
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