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Title: Time evolution and asymmetry of a laser produced blast wave

Abstract

Studies of a blast wave produced from carbon rods and plastic spheres in an argon background gas have been conducted using the Vulcan laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. A laser of 1500 J was focused onto these targets, and rear-side observations of an emission front were recorded using a fast-framing camera. The emission front is asymmetrical in shape and tends to a more symmetrical shape as it progresses due to the production of a second shock wave later in time, which pushes out the front of the blast wave. Plastic spheres produce faster blast waves, and the breakthrough of the second shock is visible before the shock stalls. Furthermore the results are presented to demonstrate this trend, and similar evolution dynamics of experimental and simulation data from the FLASH radiation-hydrodynamics code are observed.

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  1. Univ. of York, York (United Kingdom)
  2. STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot (United Kingdom)
  3. Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom)
  4. Queen's Univ., Belfast (United Kingdom)
  5. Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
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Research Org.:
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1502089
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1399292
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0016566; FWP 57789
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physics of Plasmas
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 24; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Plasmas; Computer simulation; Volcanology; Plasma diagnostics; Shock waves; Data analysis; Chemical elements; Lasers; Electromagnetism; Hydrodynamics simulations

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Tubman, E. R., Scott, R. H. H., Doyle, H. W., Meinecke, J., Ahmed, H., Alraddadi, R. A. B., Bolis, R., Cross, J. E., Crowston, R., Doria, D., Lamb, D., Reville, B., Robinson, A. P. L., Tzeferacos, P., Borghesi, M., Gregori, G., and Woolsey, N. C. Time evolution and asymmetry of a laser produced blast wave. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4987038.
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Tubman, E. R., Scott, R. H. H., Doyle, H. W., Meinecke, J., Ahmed, H., Alraddadi, R. A. B., Bolis, R., Cross, J. E., Crowston, R., Doria, D., Lamb, D., Reville, B., Robinson, A. P. L., Tzeferacos, P., Borghesi, M., Gregori, G., & Woolsey, N. C. Time evolution and asymmetry of a laser produced blast wave. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4987038
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Tubman, E. R., Scott, R. H. H., Doyle, H. W., Meinecke, J., Ahmed, H., Alraddadi, R. A. B., Bolis, R., Cross, J. E., Crowston, R., Doria, D., Lamb, D., Reville, B., Robinson, A. P. L., Tzeferacos, P., Borghesi, M., Gregori, G., and Woolsey, N. C. Fri . "Time evolution and asymmetry of a laser produced blast wave". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4987038. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1502089.
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@article{osti_1502089,
title = {Time evolution and asymmetry of a laser produced blast wave},
author = {Tubman, E. R. and Scott, R. H. H. and Doyle, H. W. and Meinecke, J. and Ahmed, H. and Alraddadi, R. A. B. and Bolis, R. and Cross, J. E. and Crowston, R. and Doria, D. and Lamb, D. and Reville, B. and Robinson, A. P. L. and Tzeferacos, P. and Borghesi, M. and Gregori, G. and Woolsey, N. C.},
abstractNote = {Studies of a blast wave produced from carbon rods and plastic spheres in an argon background gas have been conducted using the Vulcan laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. A laser of 1500 J was focused onto these targets, and rear-side observations of an emission front were recorded using a fast-framing camera. The emission front is asymmetrical in shape and tends to a more symmetrical shape as it progresses due to the production of a second shock wave later in time, which pushes out the front of the blast wave. Plastic spheres produce faster blast waves, and the breakthrough of the second shock is visible before the shock stalls. Furthermore the results are presented to demonstrate this trend, and similar evolution dynamics of experimental and simulation data from the FLASH radiation-hydrodynamics code are observed.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4987038},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 10,
volume = 24,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Oct 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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FIG. 1. FIG. 1. : A diagram of the experimental set-up for producing a blast wave from a carbon rod and propagating out into an ambient background gas.
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