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    Physics of Plasmas 8 (2001), S. 2609-2612 
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: It is shown that laser driven hohlraums obtain significant internal pressures which affect the hydrodynamics of high-energy density shock-tube experiments. By incorporating this previously neglected hohlraum pressure effect (in addition to the usual x-ray drive) into computer simulations which model the NOVA laser driven supernova remnant experiment [R. P. Drake, S. G. Glendinning, K. Estabrook, B. A. Remington, R. McCray, R. J. Williams, L. J. Suter, T. B. Smith, J. J. Carroll III, R. A. London, and E. Liang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2068 (1998)], calculations are able to reproduce the observed structure of hydrodynamic features. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Experiments have been developed using high powered laser facilities to study the response of materials in the solid state under extreme pressures and strain rates. Details of the target and drive development required for solid-state experiments and results from two separate experiments are presented. In the first, thin foils were compressed to a peak pressure of 180 GPa and accelerated. A pre-imposed modulation at the embedded Rayleigh–Taylor unstable interface was observed to grow. The growth rates were fluid-like at early time, but suppressed at later time. This result is suggestive of the theory of localized heating in shear bands, followed by conduction of the heat into the bulk material, allowing for recovery of the bulk material strength. In the second experiment, the response of Si was studied by dynamic x-ray diffraction. The crystal was observed to respond with uni-axial compression at a peak pressure 11.5–13.5 GPa. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Experiments were performed on the Nova laser [E. M. Campbell et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 57, 2101 (1986)], using indirectly driven capsules mounted in cylindrical gold hohlraums, to measure the Rayleigh–Taylor growth at the ablation front by time-resolved radiography. Modulations were preformed on the surface of Ge-doped plastic capsules. With initial modulation amplitude of 2–2.5 μm, growth factors of about six in optical depth were seen, in agreement with simulations using the radiation hydrocode FCI2 [G. Schurtz, La fusion thermonucleaire inertielle par laser, edited by R. Dautray et al. (Eyrolles, Paris, 1994), Vol. 2]. With initial modulation amplitude of 0.5 μm and a longer drive, growth factors of about 100–150 in optical depth were seen. Comparable planar experiments showed growth factors of about 40 in optical depth. Analytical models predict the observed growth factors. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: During the last few years, considerable progress has been made in simulating astrophysical phenomena in laboratory experiments with high-power lasers. Astrophysical phenomena that have drawn particular interest include supernovae explosions; young supernova remnants; galactic jets; the formation of fine structures in late supernovae remnants by instabilities; and the ablation-driven evolution of molecular clouds. A question may arise as to what extent the laser experiments, which deal with targets of a spatial scale of ∼100 μm and occur at a time scale of a few nanoseconds, can reproduce phenomena occurring at spatial scales of a million or more kilometers and time scales from hours to many years. Quite remarkably, in a number of cases there exists a broad hydrodynamic similarity (sometimes called the "Euler similarity") that allows a direct scaling of laboratory results to astrophysical phenomena. A discussion is presented of the details of the Euler similarity related to the presence of shocks and to a special case of a strong drive. Constraints stemming from the possible development of small-scale turbulence are analyzed. The case of a gas with a spatially varying polytropic index is discussed. A possibility of scaled simulations of ablation front dynamics is one more topic covered in this paper. It is shown that, with some additional constraints, a simple similarity exists. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: More than a decade after the explosion of supernova 1987A, unresolved discrepancies still remain in attempts to numerically simulate the mixing processes initiated by the passage of a very strong shock through the layered structure of the progenitor star. Numerically computed velocities of the radioactive 56Ni and 56Co, produced by shock-induced explosive burning within the silicon layer, for example, are still more than 50% too low as compared with the measured velocities. To resolve such discrepancies between observation and simulation, an experimental testbed has been designed on the Omega Laser for the study of hydrodynamic issues of importance to supernovae (SNe). In this paper, results are presented from a series of scaled laboratory experiments designed to isolate and explore several issues in the hydrodynamics of supernova explosions. The results of the experiments are compared with numerical simulations and are generally found to be in reasonable agreement. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: In studying complex astrophysical phenomena such as supernovae, one does not have the luxury of setting up clean, well-controlled experiments in the universe to test the physics of current models and theories. Consequently, creating a surrogate environment to serve as an experimental astrophysics testbed would be highly beneficial. The existence of highly sophisticated, modern research lasers, developed largely as a result of the world-wide effort in inertial confinement fusion, opens a new potential for creating just such an experimental testbed utilizing well-controlled, well-diagnosed laser-produced plasmas. Two areas of physics critical to an understanding of supernovae are discussed that are amenable to supporting research on large lasers: (1) compressible nonlinear hydrodynamic mixing and (2) radiative shock hydrodynamics. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: In direct drive inertial confinement fusion, the residual speckle pattern remaining after beam smoothing plays an important role in the seeding of instabilities at the ablation front. An x-ray laser is used as an extreme ultraviolet backlighter to characterize the imprinted modulation in thin foils for smoothing by random phase plate and by spectral dispersion for both 0.35 and 0.53 μm irradiation, and by induced spatial incoherence for 0.53 μm irradiation. Measurements of the imprinted modulation due to a single optical mode generated by two beam interference, and modification of the imprint with a superposed smooth irradiation to study time dependence of the imprinting process are demonstrated. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: In direct drive inertial confinement fusion (ICF), nonuniformities in laser illumination seed ripples at the ablation front in a process called "imprint." These nonuniformities grow during the capsule implosion and, if initially large enough, can penetrate the capsule shell, impede ignition, or degrade burn. Imprint has been simulated for recent experiments performed on the Nova laser [Campbell et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 57, 2101 (1986)] examining a variety of beam smoothing conditions. Most used laser intensities similar to the early part of an ignition capsule pulse shape, I≅1013 W/cm2. The simulations matched most of the measurements of imprint modulation. The effect of imprint upon National Ignition Facility (NIF) direct drive ignition capsules has also been simulated. Imprint is predicted to give modulation comparable to an intrinsic surface finish of ∼10 nm rms. Modulation growth was examined using the Haan [Phys. Rev. A 39, 5812 (1989)] model, with linear growth factors as a function of spherical harmonic mode number obtained from an analytic dispersion relation. Ablation front amplitudes are predicted to become substantially nonlinear, so that saturation corrections are large. Direct numerical simulations of two-dimensional multimode growth were also performed. The capsule shell is predicted to remain intact, which gives a basis for believing that ignition can be achieved. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 9
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    [S.l.] : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
    Physics of Plasmas 2 (1995), S. 241-255 
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) experiments have been conducted with planar CH(Br) foils accelerated by x-ray ablation from a shaped, low adiabat drive. The surface perturbations investigated consisted of single-mode, two-mode, and eight-mode sinusoids. The perturbation evolution begins during the shock transit phase, when perturbations show gradual growth due to Richtmyer–Meshkov-like dynamics. After shock breakout, the compressed foils accelerate and perturbation growth continues due to the Rayleigh–Taylor instability. Detailed comparisons with simulations indicate that in the linear Rayleigh–Taylor regime, the single-mode perturbations grow exponentially in time. In the nonlinear regime, the growth slows and the perturbation shape changes from sinusoidal to "bubble and spike'' with the appearance of higher Fourier harmonics. In the multimode perturbations, the individual modes grow independently in the linear regime, but become coupled in the nonlinear regime. In addition to the higher harmonics of the individual modes, coupling leads to the appearance of ki±kj "beat'' modes. This results in a redistribution of the perturbation into a broader Fourier spectrum causing a change of shape: bubbles become broader and flatter and spikes narrower, in agreement with simulations and multimode theory. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 10
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: A new method for performing compressible hydrodynamic instability experiments using high-power lasers is presented. A plasma piston is created by supersonically heating a low-density carbon based foam with x-rays from a gold hohlraum heated to ∼200 eV by a ∼1 ns Nova laser pulse [E. M. Campbell et al., Laser Part. Beams 9, 209 (1991)]. The piston causes an almost shockless acceleration of a thin, higher-density payload consisting of a layer of gold, initially 1/2 μm thick, supported on 10 μm of solid plastic, at ∼45 μm/ns2. The payload is also heated by hohlraum x-rays to in excess of 150 eV so that the Au layer expands to ∼20 μm prior to the onset of instability growth. The Atwood number between foam and Au is ∼0.7. Rayleigh–Taylor instability, seeded by the random fibrous structure of the foam, causes a turbulent mixing region with a Reynolds number 〉105 to develop between piston and Au. The macroscopic width of the mixing region was inferred from the change in Au layer width, which was recorded via time resolved x-radiography. The mix width thus inferred is demonstrated to depend on the magnitude of the initial foam seed. For a small initial seed, the bubble front in the turbulent mixing region is estimated indirectly to grow as ∼0.036±0.19 [∫(square root of)(Ag)dt]2 which would imply for a constant acceleration 0.036±0.019 Agt2. More direct measurement techniques must be developed in larger scale experiments to remove potential complicating factors and reduce the error bar to a level that would permit the measurements to discriminate between various theories and models of turbulent mixing. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
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