Determining the Self-Similar Stage of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability via LLNL's NIF Discovery Science Experiments

A. Shimony, C. M. Huntington, K. A. Flippo +4

We report a novel measurement of the late time self-similar growth constant ${\alpha }_B$ of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) from controlled initial perturbations. To this end, we ha…