Bow shocks formed by a high-speed laser-driven plasma cloud interacting with a cylinder obstacle

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/5/055202

Abstract

A bow shock is formed in the interaction of a high-speed laser-driven plasma cloud with a cylinder obstacle. Its temporal and spatial structures are observed by shadowgraphy and interferometry. The width of the shock transition region is ～ 50 μm, comparable to the ion-ion collision mean free path, which indicates that collision is dominated in the shock probably. The Mach-number of the ablating plasma cloud is ～ 15 at first, and decreases with time resulting in a changing shock structure. A two-dimension hydrodynamics code, USim, is used to simulate the interaction process. The simulated shocks can well reproduce the observed.

Keywords: laboratory astrophysics bow shock high Mach-number high power lasers

Received: 01 December 2016
Revised: 26 January 2017
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PACS:	52.72.+v	(Laboratory studies of space- and astrophysical-plasma processes)
	52.35.Tc	(Shock waves and discontinuities)
	52.50.Jm	(Plasma production and heating by laser beams (laser-foil, laser-cluster, etc.))
	42.30.-d	(Imaging and optical processing)

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Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2013CBA01501), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11135012, 11375262, 11503041, and 11520101003), and the Science Challenge Program of China (Grant No. JCKY2016212A505).

Corresponding Authors: Yu-Tong Li
E-mail: ytli@iphy.ac.cn

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Yan-Fei Li(李彦霏), Yu-Tong Li(李玉同), Da-Wei Yuan(袁大伟), Fang Li(李芳), Bao-Jun Zhu(朱保君), Zhe Zhang(张喆), Jia-Yong Zhong(仲佳勇), Bo Han(韩波), Hui-Gang Wei(魏会冈), Xiao-Xing Pei(裴晓星), Jia-Rui Zhao(赵家瑞), Chang Liu(刘畅), Xiao-Xia Yuan(原晓霞), Guo-Qian Liao(廖国前), Yong-Joo Rhee, Xin Lu(鲁欣), Neng Hua(华能), Bao-Qiang Zhu(朱宝强), Jian-Qiang Zhu(朱健强), Zhi-Heng Fang(方智恒), Xiu-Guang Huang(黄秀光), Si-Zu Fu(傅思祖), Gang Zhao(赵刚), Jie Zhang(张杰) Bow shocks formed by a high-speed laser-driven plasma cloud interacting with a cylinder obstacle 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 055202

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