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Stabilization of Rayleigh-Taylor growth by thermal conduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Keith A. Brueckner  and
Siebe Jorna
Keith A. Brueckner
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Siebe Jorna
Affiliation:
Physical Dynamics, Inc., P.O. Box 556, La Jolla, California 92038
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Abstract

Initial growth rates are calculated for unstable modes of the Taylor type driven by temperature and density gradients in the presence of viscous and thermal diffusion. For a laser-driven plasma it is shown that, even without ablative flow, conduction can sharply reduce unstable growth, and that growth should only occur in the region of low temperature near the ablation front.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , December 1976 , pp. 285 - 288
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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