Growth Rates of the Ablative Rayleigh–Taylor Instability in Inertial Confinement Fusion
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20 LLE Review, Volume 73 In recent years, several authors1–14 have studied the linear growth of the Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) instability in ablation fronts accelerated by laser irradiations. The determination of the instability growth rate is crucial to the success of inertial confinement fusion (ICF)15,16 because an excessive distortion of the front could lead to a severe degradation of the capsule performance with respect to the final core conditions by seeding the deceleration-phase RT instability and preventing the onset of the ignition process.
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