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

Li Jun; Yan Rui; Zhao Bin; Zheng Jian; Zhang Huasen; Lu Xiyun

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Li Jun, Yan Rui, Zhao Bin, Zheng Jian, Zhang Huasen, Lu Xiyun. Mitigation of the ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability by nonlocal electron heat transport[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2022, 7(5): 055902. doi: 10.1063/5.0088058

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Li Jun, Yan Rui, Zhao Bin, Zheng Jian, Zhang Huasen, Lu Xiyun. Mitigation of the ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability by nonlocal electron heat transport[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2022, 7(5): 055902. doi: 10.1063/5.0088058

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

doi: 10.1063/5.0088058

Li Jun^1
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Yan Rui^{1, 2
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Zhao Bin^{2, 3},
Zheng Jian^{2, 4
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Zhang Huasen^5
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Lu Xiyun^{1
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Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA (CICIFSA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Department of Mathematics and Physics, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, JiangSu 211167, China
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Department of Plasma Physics and Fusion Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 10094, China

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Corresponding author: a)Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed: ruiyan@ustc.edu.cn and xlu@ustc.edu.cn; a)Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed: ruiyan@ustc.edu.cn and xlu@ustc.edu.cn
Received Date: 2022-02-12
Accepted Date: 2022-07-24

Available Online: 2022-09-01

Publish Date: 2022-09-01

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The effects of electron nonlocal heat transport (NLHT) on the two-dimensional single-mode ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability (ARTI) up to the highly nonlinear phase are reported for the first time through numerical simulations with a multigroup diffusion model. It is found that as well as its role in the linear stabilization of ARTI growth, NLHT can also mitigate ARTI bubble nonlinear growth after the first saturation to the classical terminal velocity, compared with what is predicted by the local Spitzer–Härm model. The key factor affecting the reduction in the linear growth rate is the enhancement of the ablation velocity V_a by preheating. It is found that NLHT mitigates nonlinear bubble growth through a mechanism involving reduction of vorticity generation. NLHT enhances ablation near the spike tip and slows down the spike, leading to weaker vortex generation as the pump of bubble reacceleration in the nonlinear stage. NLHT more effectively reduces the nonlinear growth of shorter-wavelength ARTI modes seeded by the laser imprinting phase in direct-drive laser fusion.

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