Experimental comparison of classical versus ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability
Journal Article
·
· Physical Review Letters
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550 (United States)
The evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a compressible medium has been investigated both at an accelerating embedded interface and at the ablation front in experiments on the Nova laser. Planar targets of brominated plastic for the ablation front and brominated plastic backed by a titanium payload for the embedded interface were ablatively accelerated by the x-ray drive generated in a gold hohlraum. When the perturbation is at the ablation front, short wavelength modes are stabilized, whereas at the embedded interface the shortest wavelengths grow the most. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 285768
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 76, Issue 24; Other Information: PBD: Jun 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Experimental investigation of the classical Rayleigh-Taylor instability
Classical Rayleigh Taylor experiments on Nova
Ablation front rayleigh taylor dispersion curve in indirect drive
Conference
·
Tue May 21 00:00:00 EDT 1996
·
OSTI ID:285768
+4 more
Classical Rayleigh Taylor experiments on Nova
Conference
·
Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995
·
OSTI ID:285768
Ablation front rayleigh taylor dispersion curve in indirect drive
Conference
·
Fri Nov 17 00:00:00 EST 2000
·
OSTI ID:285768
+6 more