MEASUREMENT OF RADIATION-DRIVEN SHOCK-INDUCED MIXING FROM NONLINEAR INITIAL PERTURBATIONS

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PEYSER, TA
MILLER, PL
STRY, PE
BUDIL, KS
BURKE, EW
WOJTOWICZ, DA
GRISWOLD, DL
HAMMEL, BA
PHILLION, DW
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[1] Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.2332
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We present the first experimental measurement of the growth of a mixing region at a density interface from a high-amplitude, initially nonlinear perturbation. Thermal radiation from a gold Hohlraum irradiated by the Nova laser was used to drive a shock across a perturbed plastic-foam interface in a cylindrical shock tube attached to the Hohlraum. When the effects of target decompression are removed, the width of the mix region was found to grow logarithmically with time- in agreement with recent theories for the nonlinear phase of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability.
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