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MFE & IFE Studies UW Neutronics Center of Excellence Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Shock Tube
Shock Tube
A shock tube has been fabricated for the study of shock-cylinder interactions,
capable of withstanding a 20 MPa pressure load.
The driven section can be evacuated to produce
extremely large Mach number shocks approaching the
strengths anticipated in future IFE (Inertial Fusion Energy)
devices.
A hydrodynamic issue in ICF (Inertial Confinement Fusion) that is
suitable numerically and experimentally for study within a
shock tube is the removal of energy and protection of the first
structural wall in future designs of reactors.
Additionally, water-cooled molten SnLi and PbLi eutectic
alloys are being considered as liquid blanket materials
for nuclear fusion applications. Thus, it is important
to understand the interactions that might occur if these
alloys were inadvertently to contact liquid water.
Experiments have been conducted with the molten alloys
when impacted with a vertical 2.4 m tall column of water at 30 C.
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The Rayleigh-Taylor Instability at a Water/Magnetorheological Fluid Interface;
Jeremy White, Chaine Selig, Jason Oakley, Mark Anderson, Riccardo Bonazza,
July 2004 [presented at the 9th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Cambridge, UK, 19-23 July 2004]. (1 page, 3.3 MB)
The Rayleigh-Taylor Instability at a Water/Magnetorheological Fluid Interface;
Jeremy White, Jason Oakley, Mark Anderson, Riccardo Bonazza,
July 2006 [presented at the 10th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Paris, France, 17-21 July 2006]. (1 page, 1.7 MB)
Richtmyer-Meshkov Parameter Study;
C. Weber, B. Motl, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza,
September 2008 [presented at the 18th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 28 September-2 October 2008, San Francisco CA]. (1 page, 6.8 MB)
UWFDM-1165 An Efficient and High Resolution Solver for the Two-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability; S.P. Wang, M.H. Anderson, J.G. Oakley, R. Bonazza, December 2001 [presented at the 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing (8th IWPCTM), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 9-14 December 2001 (submitted to Lasers and Particle Beams)]. (9 pages, 858 kB)
An Efficient and High Resolution Solver for the Two-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability;
S.P. Wang, M.H. Anderson, J.G. Oakley, R. Bonazza,
December 2001 [presented at the 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, December 9-14, 2001]. (1 page, 1.1 MB)
Numerical Study of Shock-Cylinder Banks Interactions;
S.P. Wang, M. Anderson, J. Oakley and R. Bonazza,
November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington, DC]. (1 page, 1.8 MB)
UWFDM-1298 Measurements of Mixing Induced at a Gas Interface by the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability; D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, J. Oakley, M.H. Anderson, J. Greenough, R. Bonazza, July 2004 [presented at the 24th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW24), Beijing, China, 11-16 July 2004; published in Shock Waves, Z.L. Jiang (ed.), Paper 2691]. (9 pages, 644 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1299 Experimental Investigation of a Strongly Shocked Gas Bubble; D. Ranjan, M. Anderson, J. Oakley, R. Bonazza, May 2005 [published in Physical Review Letters, 94 (2005)].
UWFDM-1301 Shock-Induced Instabilities on a Spherical Gas Bubble; D. Ranjan, J.H.J. Niederhaus, J.G. Oakley, M.H. Anderson, J.A. Greenough, R. Bonazza, July 2005 [presented at the 25th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW25), Bangalore, India, 17-22 July 2005, Paper 1197-2]. (9 pages, 921 kB) [more]
Experimental and Computational Investigations of Shock-Accelerated Gas Bubbles;
D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, T. Bauer, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, L. Smith, J. Greenough, R. Bonazza,
July 2004 [presented at the 9th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Cambridge, UK, 19-23 July 2004]. (38 pages, 4.2 MB)
[more]
IFE-Related Hydrodynamic Instabilities in a Spherical Gas Bubble Accelerated by a Planar Shock Wave;
D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, M. Anderson, J. Oakley, R. Bonazza, J. Greenough,
September 2004 [presented at the 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 14-16 September 2004, Madison WI]. (1 page, 1.6 MB)
[more]
Experimental Study of a Strongly Shocked Gas Bubble;
D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza,
November 2004 [presented at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 57th Annual Meeting, Seattle WA, 21-23 November 2004]. (15 pages, 1.4 MB)
Interaction of a Planar Shock with a Spherical Gas Inhomogeneity - Part I: Experiments;
D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, M.H. Anderson, J.G. Oakley, R. Bonazza,
November 2005 [presented at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 58th Annual Meeting, Chicago IL, 20-22 November 2005]. (14 pages, 2.2 MB)
Experimental Study of the Interaction of a Planar Shock with a Free Rising Bubble;
D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, M. Anderson, B. Motl, J. Oakley, R. Bonazza, J. Greenough,
July 2006 [presented at the 10th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Paris, France, 17-21 July 2006]. (15 pages, 3.4 MB)
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Experimental Study of Shock-Induced Compression and Vortex Generation in the Shock-Bubble Interaction;
D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, B. Motl, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza, J. Greenough,
November 2006 [presented at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 59th Annual Meeting, Tampa Bay FL, 19-21 November 2006]. (15 pages, 9.2 MB)
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UWFDM-1171 Experiments on the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability I: Preparation of a Membraneless Interface Using the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability; Bhalchandra Puranik, Jason Oakley, Mark Anderson, Riccardo Bonazza, September 2001. (32 pages, 637 kB)
UWFDM-1172 Experiments on the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability II: Nonlinear Evolution of a Shocked Membraneless Single-Mode Sinusoidal Interface; Bhalchandra Puranik, Jason Oakley, Mark Anderson, Riccardo Bonazza, September 2001. (34 pages, 685 kB)
An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Shock-Cylinder Interaction;
B. Puranik, M. Anderson, J. Oakley, R. Peterson, R. Bonazza, R. Weaver, M. Gittings,
July 1999 [Presented at the 22nd International Symposium on Shock Waves, London, UK, July 1999]. (13 pages, 1.3 MB)
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UWFDM-1124 Containment of Radioactive Material in the Z, ZX, and X-1 Facilities: Progress Report for the Period January 1, 1999 to December 31, 1999; R.R. Peterson, G.L. Kulcinski, M.H. Anderson, M.L. Corradini, D.A. Haynes, D.L. Henderson, D.C. Kammer, H.Y. Khater, P. McKenna, E.A. Mogahed, G.A. Moses, K. Olson, G.A. Rochau, J.F. Santarius, C. Sauer, M.E. Sawan, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, T. Utschig, P.P.H. Wilson, J. Yuan, December 1999. (75 pages, 6.4 MB)
UWFDM-1116 An Investigation of Shock-Cylinder Interaction; J.G. Oakley, B.P. Puranik, M.H. Anderson, R.R. Peterson, R. Bonazza, R.P. Weaver, M.L. Gittings, July 1999 [prepared for the 22nd International Symposium on Shock Waves, Imperial College, London, UK, July 18-23, 1999]. (8 pages, 538 kB) [more]
UWFDM-1160 Shock Loading of a Cylinder Bank with Imaging and Pressure Measurements; Jason G. Oakley, Mark H. Anderson, Shaoping Wang, Riccardo Bonazza, July 2001 [presented at the 23rd International Symposium on Shock Waves, Fort Worth TX, 22-27 July 2001]. (10 pages, 641 kB)
UWFDM-1319 Shock Mitigation Studies in Voided Liquids for Fusion Chamber Protection; J. Oakley, M. Anderson, E. Marriott, J. Gudmundson, K. Sridharan, V. Vigil, G. Rochau, R. Bonazza, November 2006 [presented at the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (8 pages, 577 kB) [more]
Shock Interface and Shock Structure Interactions;
J. Oakley, M. Anderson, S. Wang, R. Bonazza, R. Peterson,
October 2001 [ARIES E-Meeting, 24 October 2001]. (25 pages, 1.9 MB)
UWFDM-1240 Inertial-Fusion-Related Hydrodynamic Instabilities in a Spherical Gas Bubble Accelerated by a Planar Shock Wave; J. Niederhaus, D. Ranjan, M. Anderson, J. Oakley, R. Bonazza, J. Greenough, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (4), May 2005, pp. 1160-1164]. (8 pages, 850 kB) [more]
ICF-Related Hydrodynamic Instabilities in a Shocked Spherical Gas Bubble;
J. Niederhaus, D. Ranjan, M. Anderson, J. Oakley, R. Bonazza, J. Greenough,
November 2004 [presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, APS, 15-19 November 2004, Savannah GA]. (1 page, 1.6 MB)
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A Computational Parameter Study for the 3D Shock-Bubble Interaction, With and Without Modeled Soap Film;
John Niederhaus, Jason Oakley, Devesh Ranjan, Mark Anderson, Riccardo Bonazza, Jeffrey Greenough,
July 2006 [presented at the 10th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Paris, France, 17-21 July 2006]. (15 pages, 1.3 MB)
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Computational Analysis for Energy Accumulation and Non-Axisymmetric Features in a Shocked Spherical Bubble;
J. Niederhaus, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza, J. Greenough,
November 2006 [presented at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 59th Annual Meeting, Tampa Bay FL, 19-21 November 2006]. (12 pages, 2.4 MB)
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UWFDM-1300 Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability of a Membraneless, Sinusoidal Gas Interface; B.J. Motl, J.H.J. Niederhaus, M.H. Anderson, J.G. Oakley, R. Bonazza, July 2005 [presented at the 25th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW25), Bangalore, India, 17-22 July 2005]. (9 pages, 1.1 MB)
UWFDM-1320 Experimental Study for ICF-Related Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities; B. Motl, J. Niederhaus, D. Ranjan, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza, November 2006 [presented at the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (8 pages, 2.1 MB)
Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability of a Membraneless, Sinusoidal Gas Interface;
B.J. Motl, J. Niederhaus, M.H. Anderson, J.G. Oakley, R. Bonazza,
November 2005 [presented at the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 58th Annual Meeting, Chicago IL, 20-22 November 2005]. (28 pages, 3.8 MB)
Shock Accelerated Two-Dimensional Interface;
B. Motl, J. Niederhaus, J. Oakley, D. Ranjan, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza,
July 2006 [presented at the 10th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Paris, France, 17-21 July 2006]. (22 pages, 3.3 MB)
Experiments and Computations for Inertial Confinement Fusion-Related Shock-Driven Hydrodynamic Instabilities;
B. Motl, D. Ranjan, J. Niederhaus, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza,
November 2006 [presented at the 17th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 13-15 November 2006, Albuquerque NM]. (1 page, 3.9 MB)
Experiments and Computations for Inertial Confinement Fusion-Related Shock-Driven Hydrodynamic Instabilities;
B. Motl, J. Niederhaus, D. Ranjan, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza,
July 2007 [presented at the High Energy Density Physics Summer School, 29 July - 3 August 2007, San Diego, CA]. (1 page, 2.8 MB)
UWFDM-1379 Experimental Parameter Study of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability; Bradley J. Motl, December 2008 [Ph.D. thesis]. (152 pages, 27 MB)
The Potential for Graphite Oxidation in Dry Wall ICF Chambers;
E.A. Mogahed, I.N. Sviatoslavsky, J.G. Murphy, H.Y. Khater, M.H. Anderson, G.L. Kulcinski,
May 2001 [presented at the 2nd Laser IFE Program Workshop, May 31 - June 1, 2001, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC]. (15 pages, 369 kB)
UWFDM-1241 Initial Study of Supercritical Fluid Blowdown; G. Mignot, M. Anderson, M.L. Corradini, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (3), April 2005, pp. 574-580]. (7 pages, 1.1 MB)
Initial Study of Supercritical Fluid Blowdown;
G. Mignot, M. Anderson, M. Corradini,
September 2004 [presented at the 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, 14-16 September 2004, Madison WI]. (1 page, 745 kB)
UWFDM-1161 Analysis of Experimental Behavior of Molten SnxLiy When Impacted by a Vertical Column of Water; P. Meekunnasombat, M.H. Anderson, M.L. Corradini, December 2001. (83 pages, 4.6 MB)
UWFDM-1215 Experimental Investigation of a Shock-Accelerated Liquid Layer with Imaging and Pressure Measurement; P. Meekunnasombat, J.G. Oakley, M.H. Anderson, R. Bonazza, November 2002 [presented at the 15th ANS Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, 17-21 November 2002, Washington, DC; published in Fusion Science and Technology 44, 351 (2003)]. (8 pages, 1.2 MB)
UWFDM-1239 Protection of IFE First Wall Surfaces from Impulsive Loading by Multiple Liquid Layers; P. Meekunnasombat, J. Oakley, M. Anderson, R. Bonazza, September 2004 [Proceedings 16th ANS Topical Meeting on Fusion Energy, Fusion Science and Technology 47 (4), May 2005, pp. 1170-1174]. (8 pages, 1.1 MB)