Shock compressed solids on the Nova laser

Conference · Tue Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 1999

OSTI ID:12564

Colvin, J D; Gold, D M; Kalantar, D H; Mikaelian, K O; Remington, B A; Weber, S V; Wiley, G

Experiments are being developed to shock compress metal foils in the solid state to study the material strength under high compression. The x-ray drive has been characterized and hydrodynamics experiments performed to study growth of the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability in Al foils at a peak pressure of about 1.8 Mbar. Pre-imposed modulations with an initial wavelength of lo-50 pm, and amplitude of 0.5 pm show growth. Variation in the growth factors may be a result of shot-shot variation in preheating of the Al sample due to emission from the plasma in the hohlraum target

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Defense Programs (DP) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 12564
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-132687; DP0210000; DP0210000; TRN: US0102564
• Resource Relation: Conference: 11th American Physical Society Topical Conference on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, Snowbird, UT (US), 06/27/1999--07/02/1999; Other Information: PBD: 3 Aug 1999
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
COMPRESSION
HEAT TREATMENTS
HYDRODYNAMICS
INSTABILITY
LASERS
IMPACT SHOCK
TARGETS
NOVA FACILITY
RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY
ALUMINIUM