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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4940917
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- Office of Fusion Energy Sciences [DE-FG02-04ER54789, DE-SC0014318]
- Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-NA0001944]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion of Spain [ENE2011-28489]
- University of Rochester
- New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
- LANL LDRD program [20150568ER]
- U.S. DOE
- Division Of Ocean Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1259794] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The nonlinear evolution of the single-mode ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability is studied in three dimensions. As the mode wavelength approaches the cutoff of the linear spectrum (short-wavelength modes), it is found that the three-dimensional (3D) terminal bubble velocity greatly exceeds both the two-dimensional (2D) value and the classical 3D bubble velocity. Unlike in 2D, the 3D short-wavelength bubble velocity does not saturate. The growing 3D bubble acceleration is driven by the unbounded accumulation of vorticity inside the bubble. The vorticity is transferred by mass ablation from the Rayleigh-Taylor spikes to the ablated plasma filling the bubble volume. (C) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.
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