Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and Laser-Pellet Fusion

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S. E. Bodner · Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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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.

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Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications

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Published in: Physical Review Letters

Volume 33, Issue 13, pp. 761-764

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.33.761

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