New approaches to the preparation of PαMS beads as mandrels for NIF-scale target capsules

Fusion Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 206-211

  Cook, Robert ^a   Buckley, Steven R ^a   Fearon, Evelyn ^a   Letts, Stephen A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; GLYCEROL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLASTICIZERS; POLYSTYRENES; PROPANE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

POLYMETHYLSTYRENE;

INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION;

EID: 0032634333     PISSN: 07481896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/fst99-a11963924     Document Type: Article

References (10)

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3. R. C. Cook, P. M. Gresho, and K. E. Hamilton, "Examination of Some Droplet Deformation Forces Related to NIF Capsule Sphericity," J. Moscow Phys. Soc. (1998), to be published. See also P. M. Gresho, "Some Aspects of the Hydrodynamics of the Microencapsulation Route to NIF Mandrels," Fusion Technol., this issue.
4. R. C. Cook, P. M. Gresho, and K. E. Hamilton, "Examination of Some Droplet Deformation Forces Related to NIF Capsule Sphericity," J. Moscow Phys. Soc. (1998), to be published. See also P. M. Gresho, "Some Aspects of the Hydrodynamics of the Microencapsulation Route to NIF Mandrels," Fusion Technol., this issue.
5. P. M. Gresho, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, unpublished work.
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10. R. C. Cook, R. L. McEachern, and R. B. Stephens, "Representative Surface Profile Power Spectra from Capsules Used in Nova and Omega Implosion Experiments," Fusion Technol., this issue.