Mass loss of exploding foils
- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 64 (3) , 1581-1583
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.341790
Abstract
A thin asymmetrically driven exploding foil loses mass when the acceleration of the bulk of the foils exceeds the acceleration of the foil’s back. A simplified but exactly solvable model clarifies the mass erosion process.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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