Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 7, Issue 5, 055902(2022)

Mitigation of the ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability by nonlocal electron heat transport

Jun Li1,*... Rui Yan1,2, Bin Zhao2,3, Jian Zheng2,4, Huasen Zhang5 and Xiyun Lu1 |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 2Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA (CICIFSA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 3Department of Mathematics and Physics, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, JiangSu 211167, China
  • 4Department of Plasma Physics and Fusion Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
  • 5Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 10094, China
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    Category: Inertial Confinement Fusion Physics

    Received: Feb. 12, 2022

    Accepted: Jul. 24, 2022

    Published Online: Oct. 8, 2022

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    DOI:10.1063/5.0088058

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