Controlling Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Magnetically Driven Solid Metal Shells by Means of a Dynamic Screw Pinch

Schmit, P. F.; Velikovich, A. L.; McBride, R. D.; Robertson, G. K.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.205001

Title: Controlling Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Magnetically Driven Solid Metal Shells by Means of a Dynamic Screw Pinch

Journal Article · Fri Nov 11 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.205001· OSTI ID:1332916

Schmit, P. F. ^[1]; Velikovich, A. L. ^[2]; McBride, R. D. ^[3]; Robertson, G. K. ^[1]

Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Naval Research Lab. (NRL), Washington, DC (United States). Plasma Physics Division
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States). Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Magnetically driven implosions of solid metal shells are an effective vehicle to compress materials to extreme pressures and densities. Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities (RTI) are ubiquitous, yet typically undesired features in all such experiments where solid materials are rapidly accelerated to high velocities. In cylindrical shells (“liners”), the magnetic field driving the implosion can exacerbate the RTI. Here, we suggest an approach to implode solid metal liners enabling a remarkable reduction in the growth of magnetized RTI (MRTI) by employing a magnetic drive with a tilted, dynamic polarization, forming a dynamic screw pinch. Our calculations, based on a self-consistent analytic framework, demonstrate that the cumulative growth of the most deleterious MRTI modes may be reduced by as much as 1 to 2 orders of magnitude. One key application of this technique is to generate increasingly stable, higher-performance implosions of solid metal liners to achieve fusion [M. R. Gomez et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 155003 (2014)]. Finally, we weigh the potentially dramatic benefits of the solid liner dynamic screw pinch against the experimental tradeoffs required to achieve the desired drive field history and identify promising designs for future experimental and computational studies.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000; 165746

OSTI ID:: 1332916

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1331831

Report Number(s):: SAND2016-10869J; PRLTAO; 648656; TRN: US1700122

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 20; ISSN 0031-9007

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