Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and Laser-Pellet Fusion
- 23 September 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 33 (13), 761-764
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.33.761
Abstract
The Rayleigh-Taylor instability in laser-driven spherical implosions can be stabilized by convective flow and by the "fire-polishing" effect, but the size of the stabilization effect depends on details of the thermal conductivity near the ablation surface.Keywords
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