Effect of ablation on the nonlinear spike growth for the single-mode ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability

J. Y. Fu; H. S. Zhang; H. B. Cai; P. L. Yao; S. P. Zhu

doi:10.1063/5.0106832

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