Tests of the hydrodynamic equivalence of direct-drive implosions with different D2 and 3He mixtures

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Rygg, J R ^a   Frenje, J A ^a   Li, C K ^a   Saguin F H ^a   Petrasso, R D ^a,c   Delettrez, J A ^b   Glebov, V Yu ^b   Goncharov, V N ^b   Meyerhofer, D D ^b,d   Regan, S P ^b   Sangster, T C ^b   Stoeckl, C ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c LLE ^*

^d Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Physics and Astronomy

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT DRIVE IMPLOSIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC EQUIVALENCE; PARTICLE DENSITY; SHELL THICKNESSES;

BINARY MIXTURES; HYDRODYNAMICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PLASMA DENSITY; SHOCK WAVES; TARGETS;

HELIUM;

EID: 33744819757     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2192759     Document Type: Article

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