LASER-DRIVEN PLANAR RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY EXPERIMENTS

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作者
GLENDINNING, SG [1 ]
WEBER, SV [1 ]
BELL, P [1 ]
DASILVA, LB [1 ]
DIXIT, SN [1 ]
HENESIAN, MA [1 ]
KANIA, DR [1 ]
KILKENNY, JD [1 ]
POWELL, HT [1 ]
WALLACE, RJ [1 ]
WEGNER, PJ [1 ]
KNAUER, JP [1 ]
VERDON, CP [1 ]
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[1] UNIV ROCHESTER,LASER ENERGET LAB,ROCHESTER,NY 14623
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1201
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We have performed a series of experiments on the Nova Laser Facility to examine the hydrodynamic behavior of directly driven planar foils with initial perturbations of varying wavelength. The foils were accelerated with a single, frequency doubled, smoothed and temporally shaped laser beam at 0.8 x 10(14) W/cm2. The experiments are in good agreement with numerical simulations using the computer codes LASNEX and ORCHID which show growth rates reduced to about 70% of classical for this nonlinear regime.
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