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Title: Demonstration of Scale-Invariant Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth in Laser-Driven Cylindrical Implosion Experiments

Abstract

Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth is shown to be hydrodynamically scale-invariant in convergent cylindrical implosions for targets that varied in radial dimension and implosion timescale by a factor of three. The targets were driven directly by laser irradiation providing a short impulse, and instability growth at an embedded aluminum interface occurs as it converges radially inward by a factor of2.25 and decelerates on a central foam core. Late-time growth factors of 14 are observed for a single-modem= 20 azimuthal perturbation at both scales, despite the differences in laser drive conditions between the experimental facilities, consistent with predictions from radiation-hydrodynamics simulations. This platform enables detailed investigations into the limits of hydrodynamic scaling in high-energy-density systems.

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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  3. Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev (Isreal)
  4. Negev Nuclear Research Center, Beersheba (Isreal)
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Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1659212
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-19-32668
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; TRN: US2203410
Grant/Contract Number:  
89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 124; Journal Issue: 18; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY

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Sauppe, Joshua Paul, Palaniyappan, Sasikumar, Tobias, Benjamin John, Kline, John L., Flippo, Kirk Adler, Landen, O. L., Shvarts, D., Batha, Steven H., Bradley, Paul Andrew, Loomis, Eric Nicholas, Vazirani, Nomita Nirmal, Fiedler Kawaguchi, Codie Yoshiko, Kot, Lynn, Schmidt, Derek William, Day, Thomas H., Zylstra, A. B., and Malka, E. Demonstration of Scale-Invariant Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth in Laser-Driven Cylindrical Implosion Experiments. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.124.185003.
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Sauppe, Joshua Paul, Palaniyappan, Sasikumar, Tobias, Benjamin John, Kline, John L., Flippo, Kirk Adler, Landen, O. L., Shvarts, D., Batha, Steven H., Bradley, Paul Andrew, Loomis, Eric Nicholas, Vazirani, Nomita Nirmal, Fiedler Kawaguchi, Codie Yoshiko, Kot, Lynn, Schmidt, Derek William, Day, Thomas H., Zylstra, A. B., & Malka, E. Demonstration of Scale-Invariant Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth in Laser-Driven Cylindrical Implosion Experiments. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.185003
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Sauppe, Joshua Paul, Palaniyappan, Sasikumar, Tobias, Benjamin John, Kline, John L., Flippo, Kirk Adler, Landen, O. L., Shvarts, D., Batha, Steven H., Bradley, Paul Andrew, Loomis, Eric Nicholas, Vazirani, Nomita Nirmal, Fiedler Kawaguchi, Codie Yoshiko, Kot, Lynn, Schmidt, Derek William, Day, Thomas H., Zylstra, A. B., and Malka, E. Thu . "Demonstration of Scale-Invariant Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth in Laser-Driven Cylindrical Implosion Experiments". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.185003. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1659212.
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@article{osti_1659212,
title = {Demonstration of Scale-Invariant Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth in Laser-Driven Cylindrical Implosion Experiments},
author = {Sauppe, Joshua Paul and Palaniyappan, Sasikumar and Tobias, Benjamin John and Kline, John L. and Flippo, Kirk Adler and Landen, O. L. and Shvarts, D. and Batha, Steven H. and Bradley, Paul Andrew and Loomis, Eric Nicholas and Vazirani, Nomita Nirmal and Fiedler Kawaguchi, Codie Yoshiko and Kot, Lynn and Schmidt, Derek William and Day, Thomas H. and Zylstra, A. B. and Malka, E.},
abstractNote = {Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth is shown to be hydrodynamically scale-invariant in convergent cylindrical implosions for targets that varied in radial dimension and implosion timescale by a factor of three. The targets were driven directly by laser irradiation providing a short impulse, and instability growth at an embedded aluminum interface occurs as it converges radially inward by a factor of2.25 and decelerates on a central foam core. Late-time growth factors of 14 are observed for a single-modem= 20 azimuthal perturbation at both scales, despite the differences in laser drive conditions between the experimental facilities, consistent with predictions from radiation-hydrodynamics simulations. This platform enables detailed investigations into the limits of hydrodynamic scaling in high-energy-density systems.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.124.185003},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 18,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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