Symmetry of Laser-Driven Implosions
- 18 February 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 32 (7) , 355-358
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.32.355
Abstract
A perturbation method is developed for nearly spherical heat and fluid flow. It shows that electron thermal conduction may be sufficiently symmetrizing to allow laser-driven fusion with a single beam.Keywords
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