Test of Thermal Transport Models through Dynamic Overpressure Stabilization of Ablation-Front Perturbation Growth in Laser-Driven CH Foils
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623 (United States)
Heat-flow-induced dynamic overpressure at the perturbed ablation front of an inertial confinement fusion target can stabilize the ablative Richtmyer-Meshkov-like instability and mitigate the subsequent ablative Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability. A series of experiments was performed on the OMEGA laser to quantify the dynamic overpressure stabilization during the shock transit. Analysis of the experimental data using hydrocode simulations shows that the observed oscillatory evolution of the ablation-front perturbations depends on D{sub c}, the size of the thermal conduction zone, and the fluid velocity in the blowoff region V{sub bl} that are sensitive to the thermal transport model used. We show that the simulations match the experiment well when the time dependence of the heat-flux inhibition is taken into account using a recently developed nonlocal heat-transport model [V. N. Goncharov et al., Phys. Plasmas 13, 012702 (2006)].
- OSTI ID:
- 20778832
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 96, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.115005; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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