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Recent Experimental Results and Modelling of High-Mach-Number Jets and the Transition to Turbulence

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In recent years, we have carried out experiments at the University of Rochester’s Omega laser in which supersonic, dense-plasma jets are formed by the interaction of strong shocks in a complex target assembly (Foster et al., Phys. Plasmas 9 (2002) 2251). We describe recent, significant extensions to this work, in which we consider scaling of the experiment, the transition to turbulence, and astrophysical analogues. In new work at the Omega laser, we are developing an experiment in which a jet is formed by laser ablation of a titanium foil mounted over a titanium washer with a central, cylindrical hole. Some of the resulting shocked titanium expands, cools, and accelerates through the vacuum region (the hole in the washer) and then enters a cylinder of low-density foam as a jet. We discuss the design of this new experiment and present preliminary experimental data and results of simulations using AWE hydrocodes. In each case, the high Reynolds number of the jet suggests that turbulence should develop, although this behaviour cannot be reliably modelled by present, resolution-limited simulations (because of their low-numerical Reynolds number).

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  1. AWE, Aldermaston, UK

    P. A. Rosen, R. J. R. Williams, J. M. Foster & M. J. Taylor

  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

    B. H. Wilde, P. A. Keiter & R. F. Coker

  3. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

    T. S. Perry

  4. University of Chicago, USA

    A. M. Khokhlov

  5. University of Michigan, USA

    R. P. Drake

  6. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA

    G. R. Bennett, D. B. Sinars & R. B. Campbell

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Rosen, P.A., Wilde, B.H., Williams, R.J.R. et al. Recent Experimental Results and Modelling of High-Mach-Number Jets and the Transition to Turbulence. Astrophys Space Sci 298, 121–128 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-005-3921-5

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