Abstract
A linear approximation method has been developed to study the stability of spherically symmetric hydrodynamic motion. Application of this technique to laser-driven spherical implosions indicates that the implosions are linearly unstable to perturbations at the ablating surface.
- Received 1 November 1973
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.32.352
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