Ablative stabilization of the deceleration phase rayleigh-taylor instability

The growth rates of the deceleration-phase Rayleigh-Taylor instability for imploding inertial confinement fusion capsules are calculated and compared with the results of numerical simulations. It is found that the unstable spectrum and the growth rates are significantly reduced by the finite ablation flow at the shell's inner surface. For typical direct-drive capsules designed for the National Ignition Facility, the unstable spectrum exhibits a cutoff for l approximately 90.     

Bubble acceleration in the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability

The highly nonlinear evolution of the single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at the ablation front of an accelerated target is investigated in the parameter range typical of inertial confinement fusion implosions. A new phase of the nonlinear bubble evolution is discovered. After the linear growth phase and a short constant-velocity phase, it is found that the bubble is accelerated to velocities well above the classical value. This acceleration is driven by the vorticity accumulation inside the bubble resulting from the mass ablation and vorticity convection off the ablation front. While the ablative growth rates are slower than their classical values in the linear regime, the ablative RTI grows faster than the classical RTI in the nonlinear regime for deuterium and tritium ablators.     

Time-dependent electron thermal flux inhibition in direct-drive laser implosions

We simulate direct-drive CH target implosions with square laser pulses by a one-dimensional Fokker-Planck solver combined with a hydrodynamic code, and compare the results with those simulated by the flux-limited Spitzer-H?rm model. We find that the electron thermal flux inhibition is time dependent, resulting in longer density scale length, larger laser absorption, and smaller growth of Rayleigh-Taylor instability. The time of peak neutron production calculated from Fokker-Planck simulations agrees with experiments for both 1-ns and 400-ps pulses.     

Compressible Rayleigh-Taylor Instability with Preheat in Inertial Confinement Fusion

The compressible Rayleigh-Taylor instability of accelerated ablation front is analysed in consideration of the preheat effects, and the corresponding eigen-problem is solved numerically using the fourth-order accurate two- point compact difference scheme. Both the growth rate and perturbation profiles are obtained, and the obtained growth rate is close to the results of direct numerical simulation. Our results show that the growth rate is more reduced and the cutoff wave length becomes longer as preheat increases.     

Fourier-space nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor growth measurements of 3D laser-imprinted modulations in planar targets

Nonlinear growth of 3D broadband nonuniformities was measured near saturation levels using x-ray radiography in planar foils accelerated by laser light. The initial target modulations were seeded by laser nonuniformities and later amplified during acceleration by Rayleigh-Taylor instability. The nonlinear saturation velocities are measured for the first time and are found to be in excellent agreement with Haan predictions. The measured growth of long-wavelength modes is consistent with enhanced, nonlinear, long-wavelength generation in ablatively driven targets.     

用高精度有限差分法模拟烧蚀瑞利-泰勒不稳定性

求解烧蚀面附近流场的定常解,并以此作为基本流实现用高精度的WENO格式对烧蚀瑞利-泰勒不稳定性的数值模拟.线性增长率与Lindl公式以及线性稳定性分析给出的结果相符合,证明该数值模拟方法的准确性与精度,该方法还具有较好的界面变形捕捉能力.     

Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability at short wavelengths observed with moiré interferometry

One of the most important quantities to be measured for better understanding of the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability is the growth rate in the short wavelength region at which the RT instability is significantly reduced. The short wavelength ( 4.7-12 microm) RT growth rates for direct-drive targets were measured for the first time by utilizing the innovated moiré interferometry [M. Matsuoka et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 70, 637 (1999)]. These growth rates were reasonably well reproduced by the simulation that solves the Fokker-Planck equation for nonlocal heat transport.     

烧蚀RT不稳定性X射线分幅诊断研究进展

在神光II装置上,利用高动态范围高性能X射线分幅相机开展了辐射驱动烧蚀RT不稳定性面背光实验研究.在神光II 8路2ns辐射源和第九路Mo背光条件下,利用二维时空照相获得了周期20 μupm、初始扰动1 μupm烧蚀RT样品清晰的增长过程,并通过掺Br比例1.1%样品观测到RT非线性增长的结果.实验为惯性约束聚变(inertial confinement fusion,ICF)RT不稳定性定量表征和数值模拟奠定了良好的基础.     

Effect of shock heating on the stability of laser-driven targets

The shock heating of a laser-driven, direct-drive target can determine its stability by affecting Rayleigh-Taylor growth rates through target decompression and ablative stabilization. Measurements indicate that pulses that rise rapidly to 10(14) W/cm(2) produce shock-induced temperatures of approximately 25 eV, whereas more slowly rising pulses show less heating. Analysis of the observed target behavior produced by these two pulses demonstrates that shock heating improves hydrodynamic stability because ablative stabilization increases when the targets are preheated by shocks.     

A numerical study on Rayleigh-Taylor instability of aluminum plates driven by detonation

The authors,using elastic-plastic hydrodynamic code,present the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability of Al plates driven by high-explosive detonation. Our numerical study assumes the material is fluid,or it is an elastic-plastic solid,and we compare the results of these simulations with the experimental data. For the numerical simulation of Rayleigh-Taylor instability of the metal driven by high-explosive detonation,the elastic-plastic effect must be assumed. The result of the simulation is different from the e...     

瑞利-泰勒不稳定性的格子玻耳兹曼模拟

发展了一个不相混两相流体的格子玻耳兹曼模型，模拟瑞利-泰勒不稳定性．模型使用正方格阵并引入了一外力．数值模拟得到了界面扰动的线性和非线性发展图象，并与实验和其它方法的结果进行了比较 关键词：     

Directly driven Rayleigh—Taylor instability of modulated CH targets

Directly driven ablative Rayleigh-Taylor (R-T) instability of modulated CH targets was studied using the face- on X-ray radiography on the Shen-Guang II device. We obtained temporal evolution images of the R-T instability perturbation. The R-T instability growth factor has been obtained by using the methods of fast Fourier transform and seeking the difference of light intensity between the peak and the valley of the targets. Through comparison with the the theoretical simulation, we found that the experimental data had a good agreement with the theoretical simulation results before 1.8 ns, and was lower than the theoretical simulation results after that.     

Stabilizing effect of anisotropic thermal diffusion on the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Linear theory of the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability in anisotropic diffusive materials is presented. This analysis indicates that enhancing diffusion in a plane transverse to the mean longitudinal flow can strongly reduce the growth of the instability. In the context of inertial confinement fusion, it is shown that anisotropic diffusion can be achieved using a laminated ablator made of successive layers of different diffusive properties. Numerical simulations confirm the theoretical predictions and indeed exhibit a significant stabilization of the ablation front for laminated ablators.     

Test of thermal transport models through dynamic overpressure stabilization of ablation-front perturbation growth in laser-driven CH foils

Heat-flow-induced dynamic overpressure at the perturbed ablation front of an inertial confinement fusion target can stabilize the ablative Richtmyer-Meshkov-like instability and mitigate the subsequent ablative Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability. A series of experiments was performed on the OMEGA laser to quantify the dynamic overpressure stabilization during the shock transit. Analysis of the experimental data using hydrocode simulations shows that the observed oscillatory evolution of the ablation-front perturbations depends on Dc, the size of the thermal conduction zone, and the fluid velocity in the blowoff region Vb1 that are sensitive to the thermal transport model used. We show that the simulations match the experiment well when the time dependence of the heat-flux inhibition is taken into account using a recently developed nonlocal heat-transport model [V. N. Goncharov et al., Phys. Plasmas 13, 012702 (2006)].     

Comprehensive diagnosis of growth rates of the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability

The growth rate of the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability is approximated by gamma = square root[kg/(1 + kL)] - beta km/rho(a), where k is the perturbation wave number, g the gravity, L the density scale length, m the mass ablation rate, and rho(a) the peak target density. The coefficient beta was evaluated for the first time by measuring all quantities of this formula except for L, which was taken from the simulation. Although the experimental value of beta = 1.2+/-0.7 at short perturbation wavelengths is in reasonably good agreement with the theoretical prediction of beta = 1.7, it is found to be larger than the prediction at long wavelengths.     

Weak Nonlinearity of Ablative Rayleigh--Taylor Instability

The weakly nonlinear regime of single mode ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability is studied, with consideration of preheat effect and the width of the ablation front. The Rayleigh-Taylor linear growth rate agrees well with the direct numerical simulation. For the density perturbation, the amplitude distribution of the fundamental mode has one peak value whereas those of the second and third harmonics have two and three peak values, respectively. Harmonics generation versus wave number is also given and it is close to the result of direct numerical simulation.     

高速摄影在流体动力学不稳定性研究中的应用

用高速摄影技术研究了高压气体膨胀驱动空气-水界面的瑞利-泰勒不稳定性,获得了空气-水界面的不稳定性清晰图像,得到气炮尖顶运动速度及湍流混合层高度增长速度与时间关系曲线。在横式激波管上用高速纹影诊断技术研究了激波作用空气-SF6界面的里克特迈耶-梅什科夫不稳定性,初步获得了实验图像,可清晰显示混合区变化过程。     

Effects of ionization gradients on inertial-confinement-fusion capsule hydrodynamic stability

A linear perturbation analysis based on velocity potentials is adapted to include the regional, average-ion charge states (Z) in an imploding, inertial-confinement-fusion capsule and shown to lead to superclassical Rayleigh-Taylor growth following deceleration onset. The added instability is ascribed to an inverted ion-entropy gradient driven by the stepwise ionization mismatch DeltaZ across the fuel-pusher interface and is predicted to principally occur in low Atwood-number (<0.5) implosions associated with low-Z pushers. Similar instability enhancement may pertain to supernovae phenomena and ionization fronts in H II protostellar regions.     

平面调制靶瑞利-泰勒不稳定性初步研究

 瑞利-泰勒不稳定性增长的准确估计是激光聚变的重要研究课题。在神光Ⅱ装置上，利用面向背光照相技术对正弦调制平面靶的瑞利-泰勒不稳定性增长进行了实验研究，得到了清晰的时空分辨图像；采用傅里叶变换取基模法和求波峰波谷差值法分析了实验结果；两种方法得到的靶扰动增长因子相同。实验中平面靶扰动增长较小可能是密度梯度致稳和烧蚀致稳抑制了扰动增长，也可能是扰动进入了非线性阶段而使增长不大。     

金属锡Rayleigh-Taylor不稳定性对模型参数敏感性的数值分析

利用自研的爆轰与冲击动力学欧拉计算程序和Steinberg-Guinan(SG)本构模型,数值模拟分析了样品初始参数(初始振幅、初始波长、样品初始厚度)和SG本构模型初始参数对爆轰驱动锡Rayleigh-Taylor(RT)不稳定性增长的影响。结果表明金属锡样品的初始参数对其RT不稳定性增长有很大的影响。RT不稳定性增长随着初始振幅的减小而减小,且存在一个截止初始振幅;存在一个最不稳定的模态(波长),当初始波长大于该波长时,RT不稳定性增长随着初始波长的减小而增大,反之,RT不稳定性增长随着初始波长的减小而减小;样品厚度的增大可以抑制RT不稳定性增长,而且存在一个样品截止厚度。金属锡的RT不稳定性增长对其SG本构模型应变硬化系数和应变硬化指数的变化不敏感,而对压力硬化系数和热软化系数比较敏感。从采用扰动增长法预估材料强度的角度来说,修正压力硬化系数以获得锡合理的材料强度是合理的途径。