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Thermal transport measurements in 1.05 μm laser irradiation of spherical targets

  • B. Yaakobi
  • , J. Delettrez
  • , L. M. Goldman
  • , R. L. McCrory
  • , R. Marjoribanks
  • , M. C. Richardson
  • , D. Shvarts
  • , S. Skupsky
  • , J. M. Soures
  • , C. Verdon
  • , D. M. Villeneuve
  • , T. Boehly
  • , R. Hutchinson
  • , S. Letzring

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)516-526
Number of pages11
JournalPhysics of Fluids
Volume27
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 1984
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes

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