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Stabilization of Rayleigh-Taylor growth by thermal conduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
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Initial growth rates are calculated for unstable modes of the Taylor type driven by temperature and density gradients in the presence of viscous and thermal diffusion. For a laser-driven plasma it is shown that, even without ablative flow, conduction can sharply reduce unstable growth, and that growth should only occur in the region of low temperature near the ablation front.
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