Abstract
Transport and implosion experiments have been conducted on the OMEGA 24-beam, uniform-irradiation facility. Thermal transport in spherical irradiation was found to be different than in comparable, single-beam target irradiation and could not be described in terms of a flux-inhibited model. Deep energy deposition in spherical irradiation (by electrons on the tail of the thermal velocity distribution) was found to lead to a temperature profile which is not as steep as predicted by a flux-inhibited model. This apparently leads to more explosive implosion (i.e., higher core temperature) than predicted by using such a model.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 516-526 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Physics of Fluids |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 1984 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computational Mechanics
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering
- Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes