Instability of Taylor-Sedov blast waves propagating through a uniform gas

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May 1991

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Physical Review Letters (ISSN 0031-9007), vol. 66, May 27, 1991, p. 2738-2741. Research supported by U.S. Navy and DNA.

Physics

90

Blast Loads, Nitrogen, Taylor Instability, Wave Propagation, Xenon, Laser Heating, Perturbation Theory, Star Formation

Scientific paper

An instability in Taylor-Sedov blast waves was measured as the waves propagated through a uniform gas with a low adiabatic index. The first measurements of the instability are given and compared to theoretical predictions. The classical Taylor-Sedov blast waves resulted from the expansion of ablation plasma into an ambient gas from laser-irradiated foils, and photographs were taken using the dark-field imaging method. Visible emission from the blasts were recorded with a four-frame microchannel-plate intensifier camera. Blast waves formed in nitrogen gas are shown to be stable and smooth, whereas the waves propagating through xenon gas are found to be unstable and wrinkled. A power law is fitted to the experimental data, and the adiabatic indices are theorized to cause the different responses in the two gases. The results generally agree with theoretical predictions in spite of some minor discrepancies, and an explanation of the instability mechanism is developed. When the adiabatic index is sufficiently low, the Taylor-Sedov blast waves in a uniform gas will be unstable, and the perturbed amplitudes will grow as a power of time.

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