Observation of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Ablatively Accelerated Foils
- 1 October 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 53 (14), 1352-1355
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.53.1352
Abstract
We present the first absolute, two-dimensionally resolved measurements of areal mass density of laser-driven ablatively accelerated foils, which show the Rayleigh-Taylor instability developing from initial mass perturbations. Our data are near simulation results which predict that the Rayleigh-Taylor growth rate is less than classical. The measurements sometimes show development of significant areal mass inhomogeneity in a direction perpendicular to that of the initially imposed perturbations.Keywords
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