Two-Dimensional Blast-Wave-Driven Rayleigh-Taylor Instability: Experiment and Simulation

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May 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009apj...696..749k&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 696, Issue 1, pp. 749-759 (2009).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Hydrodynamics, Instabilities, Plasmas, Supernovae: Individual: Sn 1987A

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This paper shows results from experiments diagnosing the development of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability with two-dimensional initial conditions at an embedded, decelerating interface. Experiments are performed at the Omega Laser and use ~5 kJ of energy to create a planar blast wave in a dense, plastic layer that is followed by a lower density foam layer. The single-mode interface has a wavelength of 50 μm and amplitude of 2.5 μm. Some targets are supplemented with additional modes. The interface is shocked then decelerated by the foam layer. This initially produces the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability followed and then dominated by Rayleigh-Taylor growth that quickly evolves into the nonlinear regime. The experimental conditions are scaled to be hydrodynamically similar to SN1987A in order to study the instabilities that are believed to occur at the He/H interface during the blast-wave-driven explosion phase of the star. Simulations of the experiment were performed using the FLASH hydrodynamics code.

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