Observation of Forward Shocks and Stagnated Ejecta Driven by High-Energy-Density Plasma Flow
- 7 September 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 81 (10) , 2068-2071
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.2068
Abstract
Laboratory studies of hydrodynamic effects driven by a flowing, expanding plasma of high-energy density and high Mach number are reported. The flowing plasma is the ejecta from matter accelerated and heated by an ablative shock. X-ray backlighting diagnoses the structure produced when this plasma impacts low-density foam. We observe the forward shock driven into the foam and the stagnated ejecta which drives a reverse shock into the flow.Keywords
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