Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth is shown to be hydrodynamically scale invariant in
convergent cylindrical implosions for targets that varied in radial dimension and implosion …

Hohlraums are hollow cylindrical cavities with high-Z material walls used to convert laser
energy into uniform x-ray radiation drives for inertial confinement fusion capsule implosions …

The fingers known as bubbles (spikes) resulting from the penetration of light (heavy) fluids
into heavy (light) fluids are significant large-scale features of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability …

Shock-induced light-fluid-layer evolution is firstly investigated experimentally and
theoretically. Specifically, three quasi-one-dimensional helium gas layers with different layer …

Direct evidence of inertially confined fusion ignition appears in the abrupt temperature
increase and consequent rapid increase in the thermonuclear burn rate as seen in the …

The convergent Richtmyer–Meshkov instability (RMI) of an layer with a uniform outer surface
and a sinusoidal inner surface surrounded by air (generated by a novel soap film technique) …

Advances in target fabrication have made double shell capsule implosions a viable platform
to study burning fusion plasmas. Central to the double shell capsule is a high-Z (eg, Au) …

Double shell capsule implosions are an alternative approach to achieving alpha heating on
the National Ignition Facility. Current machining techniques construct the outer shell as two …

A Z-pinch dynamic hohlraum can create the high-temperature radiation field required by
indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion. A dynamic hohlraum with peak radiation …

Shock-induced fluid-layer evolution has attracted much attention but remains a challenge
mainly because the coupling between layers remains unknown. Linear solutions are first …