Evidence for a Bubble-Competition Regime in Indirectly Driven Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Experiments on the NIF

Martinez, D. A.; Smalyuk, V. A.; Kane, J. O.; Casner, A.; Liberatore, S.; Masse, L. P.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.215004

Title: Evidence for a Bubble-Competition Regime in Indirectly Driven Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Experiments on the NIF

Journal Article · Fri May 29 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.215004· OSTI ID:1376014

Martinez, D. A. ^[1]; Smalyuk, V. A. ^[1]; Kane, J. O. ^[1]; Casner, A. ^[2]; Liberatore, S. ^[2]; Masse, L. P. ^[2]

Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Arpajon (France)

In this paper, we investigate on the National Ignition Facility the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the transition from weakly nonlinear to highly nonlinear regimes. A planar plastic package with preimposed two-dimensional broadband modulations is accelerated for up to 12 ns by the x-ray drive of a gas-filled Au radiation cavity with a radiative temperature plateau at 175 eV. This extended tailored drive allows a distance traveled in excess of 1 mm for a 130 μm thick foil. Measurements of the modulation optical density performed by x-ray radiography show that a bubble-merger regime for the Rayleigh-Taylor instability at an ablation front is achieved for the first time in indirect drive. Finally, the mutimode modulation amplitudes are in the nonlinear regime, grow beyond the Haan multimode saturation level, evolve toward the longer wavelengths, and show insensitivity to the initial conditions.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 1376014

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1193895

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-670326

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 114, Issue 21; ISSN 0031-9007

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