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This paper deals with a numerical simulation and theoretical investigation of the behavior of plasma flows produced when injecting a laser beam into a target for inertial thermonuclear fusion and absorbing laser radiation in the target internal cavity. Results of two-dimensional numerical calculation are presented for laser beam interaction with the sub critical plasma contained in the gap between two coaxial shells of a laser greenhouse target. The calculations confirm the possibility of initiating a supersonic wave of electron heat conduction in the absorber of the laser greenhouse target.
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Gasilov, V.A., Gus’kov, S.Y., Krukovskii, A.Y. et al. Numerical Simulation of Plasma Flows in the Interior Cavities of Laser Fusion Targets. J Russ Laser Res 18, 515–528 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03380172
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