Abstract Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instabilities are well-known
pathways towards turbulent mixing layers, in many cases characterized by significant mass …

The quest for controlled fusion energy has been ongoing for over a half century. The
demonstration of ignition and energy gain from thermonuclear fuels in the laboratory has …

The National Ignition Campaign (NIC) was a multi-institution effort established under the
National Nuclear Security Administration of DOE in 2005, prior to the completion of the …

Inertial confinement fusion seeks to create burning plasma conditions in a spherical capsule
implosion, which requires efficiently absorbing the driver energy in the capsule, transferring …

Deuterium-tritium inertial confinement fusion implosion experiments on the National Ignition
Facility have demonstrated yields ranging from 0.8 to 7× 10 14, and record fuel areal …

Mix of high-Z material from the capsule into the fuel can severely degrade the performance
of inertial fusion implosions. On the Hybrid B campaign, testing the largest high-density …

Achieving ignition in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) requires the formation of a high-
temperature (> 10 keV) central hot spot. Turbulence has been suggested as a mechanism …

Measurements have been made of the in-flight dynamics of imploding capsules indirectly
driven by laser energies of 1–1.7 MJ at the National Ignition Facility [Miller et al., Nucl …

We report on the dynamics of ultrafast heating in cryogenic hydrogen initiated by a≲ 300 fs,
92 eV free electron laser x-ray burst. The rise of the x-ray scattering amplitude from a second …

In this paper, we present the results of high-resolution simulations of the implosion of high-
convergence layered indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion capsules of the type fielded …