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Stagnation pressure of imploding shells and ignition energy scaling of inertial confinement fusion targets
A Kemp1, J Meyer-ter-Vehn, S Atzeni
1Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
Physical Review Letters
|May 1, 2001
Abstract:
The stagnation pressure p(s) of imploding cylindrical ( n = 2) and spherical ( n = 3) shells is found to scale as p(s)/p(0)~M(2(n+1)/(gamma+1))(0), where M0 is the Mach number of the imploding shell and p(0) its maximum pressure. The result holds approximately for Mach numbers in the range 2