Surface instabilities and nuclear multifragmentation

Conference · Sun Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:5079393

Moretto, L G; Tso, K; Colonna, N; Wozniak, G J

Central heavy-ion collisions, as described by a Boltzman-Nordheim-Vlasov calculation, form nuclear disks that break up into several fragments due to surface instabilities of the Rayleigh-Taylor kind. We demonstrate that a sheet of liquid, nuclear or otherwise, stable in the limit of infinitely sharp surfaces, becomes unstable due to surface-surface interactions. The onset of this instability is determined analytically. The relevance of these instabilities to nuclear multifragmentation is discussed.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 5079393
• Report Number(s): LBL-32035; CONF-920318--2; ON: DE92016924
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

663110 -- General & Average Properties of Nuclei & Nuclear Energy Levels-- (1992-)
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73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
BOLTZMANN-VLASOV EQUATION
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
EQUATIONS
HEAVY ION REACTIONS
INSTABILITY
NUCLEAR FRAGMENTATION
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY
SURFACES