Rudraiah, N. ; Krishnamurthy, B. S. ; Jalaja, A. S. ; Desai, Tara (2004) Effect of a magnetic field on the growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a laser-accelerated thin ablative surface Laser and Particle Beams, 22 (01). pp. 29-33. ISSN 0263-0346
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Abstract
The Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) of a laser-accelerated ablative surface of a thin plasma layer in an inertial fusion energy (IFE) target with incompressible electrically conducting plasma in the presence of a transverse magnetic field is investigated using linear stability analysis. A simple theory based on Stokes-lubrication approximation is proposed. It is shown that the effect of a transverse magnetic field is to reduce the growth rate of RTI considerably over the value it would have in the absence of a magnetic field. This is useful in the extraction of IFE efficiently.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Source: | Copyright of this article belongs to Cambridge University Press. |
| Keywords: | Ablative Surface; Inertial Fusion Energy; Laser Acceleration; Rayleigh-taylor Instability |
| ID Code: | 47467 |
| Deposited On: | 11 Jul 2011 14:03 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2011 14:03 |
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