Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Laser-Accelerated Targets
- 29 November 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 49 (22), 1639-1642
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.49.1639
Abstract
Numerical studies of the ablation-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability in laser-accelerated targets show growth rates typically within a factor of 2 of the classical growth rate. The appearance of the "Kelvin-Helmholtz" instability depends on the form of the initial perturbation and also on the laser irradiance. Perturbations of the target surface and laser irradiation are simulated and compared.Keywords
This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
- Rayleigh-Taylor and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities in Targets Accelerated by Laser AblationPhysical Review Letters, 1982
- Wavelength Scaling for Reactor-Size Laser-Fusion TargetsPhysical Review Letters, 1981
- Algorithms for the self-consistent generation of magnetic fields in plasmasJournal of Computational Physics, 1981
- Nonlinear Evolution of Ablation-Driven Rayleigh-Taylor InstabilityPhysical Review Letters, 1981
- Laser-driven compression of hollow shells: power requirements and stability limitationsNuclear Fusion, 1976
- Two-Dimensional Simulation of Fluid Instability in Laser-Fusion PelletsPhysical Review Letters, 1975
- Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and Laser-Pellet FusionPhysical Review Letters, 1974