| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R05062/01 |
| Title: |
Payload Acceleration and Instability Growth Rates In Soft X-Ray Driven Tamped Ablative Systems |
| Principal Investigator: |
Haines, Professor M |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 July 2001 |
Ends: |
31 March 2005 |
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271,790
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
Energy |
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The dynamics of soft x-ray heated foam/ foil packages will be investigated, with a view to their possible application to inertial Confinement FusionThe supersonically heated foam plasma is used to tamp the expansion of the ablation plasma produced at the foam/ foil interface. Several key parameters will be varied, in order to find the optimum configuration for driving a payload. In addition, this new target arrangement will be used to measure the growth rate of the Rayleigh Taylor instability in a novel regime.
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