A Novel Two-Shock Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Experiment on NOVA

Details A Novel Two-Shock Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Experiment on NOVA A Novel Two-Shock Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Experiment on NOVA

Nov 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aps..dpp.g4f14w&link_type=abstract

American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, November 16-20, 1998 New Orleans, LA, abstract #G4F.14

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Plasma Physics

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An experiment to examine the effect of a second, counter-propogating, shock on the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability is being performed on the NOVA laser. The novel design for this experiment uses two half-hohlraums mounted at each end of a 2mm shock tube. Four beams from NOVA enter each half-hohlraum and a shock is driven into a brominated-polystyrene ablator. On one side the shock traverses a machined perturbation between the high-density brominated-plastic and low density carbon foam, which initiates a Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. The counter-propogating shock traverses the shock tube and impacts the evolving mix region, which is expected to enhance the growth rate and lead to an accelerated transition to turbulence. The spatial extent of the mix zone is diagnosed via side-on radiography. Detailed design of the experiment and preliminary experimental results will be presented.

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