Steady-Ablation Model of Accelerating Laser-Target Slabs.

Abstract

A steady-state model of a plasma slab, accelerated by interaction with laser radiation, determines temperature, velocity, and density profiles and boundaries consistent with laser intensity and wavelength, and slab mass and acceleration. Density profile modification is caused by laser pressure. Plasma flows subsonically into the critical surface, supersonically out. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA047400

Entities

People

  • F. S. Felber

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ablation
  • Boundaries
  • Critical Temperature
  • Electric Fields
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Heat Flux
  • High Temperature
  • Laser Targets
  • Low Density
  • Mach Number
  • Military Research
  • Momentum
  • Steady Flow
  • Steady State
  • Targets
  • Temperature Gradients

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flight