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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.3677821
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2007CB815101, 2007CB815105]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [10935003, 10905006, 11075024, 10974022, 10835003]
- National High-Tech ICF Committee
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
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In this research, density gradient effects (i.e., finite thickness of ablation front effects) in ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability (ARTI), in the presence of preheating within the weakly nonlinear regime, are investigated numerically. We analyze the weak, medium, and strong ablation surfaces which have different isodensity contours, respectively, to study the influences of finite thickness of ablation front on the weakly nonlinear behaviors of ARTI. Linear growth rates, generation coefficients of the second and the third harmonics, and coefficients of the third-order feedback to the fundamental mode are obtained. It is found that the linear growth rate which has a remarkable maximum, is reduced, especially when the perturbation wavelength lambda is short and a cut-off perturbation wavelength lambda(c) appears when the perturbation wavelength lambda is sufficiently short, where no higher harmonics exists when lambda < lambda(c). The phenomenon of third-order positive feedback to the fundamental mode near the lambda(c) [J. Sanz et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 195002 (2002); J. Garnier et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185003 (2003); J. Garnier and L. Masse, Phys. Plasmas 12, 062707 (2005)] is confirmed in numerical simulations, and the physical mechanism of the third-order positive feedback is qualitatively discussed. Moreover, it is found that generations and growths of the second and the third harmonics are stabilized (suppressed and reduced) by the ablation effect. Meanwhile, the third-order negative feedback to the fundamental mode is also reduced by the ablation effect, and hence, the linear saturation amplitude (typically similar to 0.2 lambda in our simulations) is increased significantly and therefore exceeds the classical prediction 0.1 lambda, especially for the strong ablation surface with a small perturbation wavelength. Overall, the ablation effect stabilizes the ARTI in the weakly nonlinear regime. Numerical results obtained are in general agreement with the recent weakly nonlinear theories and simulations as proposed [J. Sanz et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 195002 (2002); J. Garnier et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185003 (2003); J. Garnier and L. Masse, Phys. Plasmas 12, 062707 (2005)]. VC 2012 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3677821]
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