Stability of Ablatively Accelerated Thin Foils
- 12 October 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 47 (15) , 1049-1053
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.47.1049
Abstract
The stability of ablatively accelerated single-layer and multilayer thin foil targets has been studied by x-ray shadowgraphy and x-ray spectral analysis of the rear target surface. Results show the single-layer foil acceleration to be essentially stable with the disassembly being thermally dominated. An upper limit to Rayleigh-Taylor growth of 1.8 is determined compared to a classical value of 11. Evidence, though, of internal layer mixing in the multilayer target is seen.Keywords
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