Fast ignitor: Fluid dynamics of channel formation and laser beam propagation

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 541-556

  Hain, S ^a   Mulser, P ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LASER ABLATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMAS; PRESSURE; RAMAN SCATTERING;

ABLATION PRESSURE; CHANNEL FORMATION; DENSITY STEEPENING; FAST IGNITOR; SPEED OF THE BOW SHOCK;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0031353681     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0263034600011125     Document Type: Article

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