Inertial confinement fusion ignition criteria, critical profiles, and burn wave propagation using self-similar solutions

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1385-1396

  Kishony, Roy ^a,b   Waxman, Eli ^a,c   Shvarts, Dov ^a  

^a NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

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EID: 0041098068     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.872314     Document Type: Article

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