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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
Observation of self-similarity in the magnetic fields generated by the ablative nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability
L Gao1, P M Nilson, I V Igumenschev
1Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA.
Abstract:
Magnetic fields generated by the nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor growth of laser-seeded three-dimensional broadband perturbations were measured in laser-accelerated planar targets using ultrafast proton radiography. The experimental data show self-similar behavior in the growing cellular magnetic field structures. These observations are consistent with a bubble competition and merger model that predicts the time evolution of the number and size of the bubbles, linking the cellular magnetic field structures with the Rayleigh-Taylor bubble and spike growth.
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