Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the limit of an infinitely large density ratio

Comptes Rendus - Mecanique

Volumn 333, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 379-388

  Clavin, Paul ^a   Almarcha, Christophe ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Ablation fronts; Fluid mechanics; Inertial confinement fusion; Rayleigh Taylor instability

Indexed keywords

FLUID MECHANICS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 18144370728     PISSN: 16310721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crme.2005.03.005     Document Type: Article

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