R. P. Drake

Research interests

Publications

• Observation of magnetic field generation via the Weibel instability in interpenetrating plasma flows

  Nature Physics · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3178

• Self-organized electromagnetic field structures in laser-produced counter-streaming plasmas

  Nature Physics · 2012 · 10.1038/nphys2434

• Generation of scaled protogalactic seed magnetic fields in laser-produced shock waves

  Nature · 2012 · 10.1038/nature10747

• Experimental astrophysics with high power lasers and Z pinches

  Reviews of Modern Physics · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.78.755

• High-Energy-Density Physics: Fundamentals, Inertial Fusion, and Experimental Astrophysics

  Journal · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29315-9

• High-Energy-Density Physics

  Shock wave and high pressure phenomena · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29315-9

• The time scale for the transition to turbulence in a high Reynolds number, accelerated flow

  Physics of Plasmas · 2003 · 10.1063/1.1534584

• On Validating an Astrophysical Simulation Code

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1086/342267

• Magnetohydrodynamic scaling: From astrophysics to the laboratory

  Physics of Plasmas · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1344562

• A review of astrophysics experiments on intense lasers

  Physics of Plasmas · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.874046

• Criteria for Scaled Laboratory Simulations of Astrophysical MHD Phenomena

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1086/313320

• Similarity Criteria for the Laboratory Simulation of Supernova Hydrodynamics

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1086/307293

• Laser-plasma interactions in long-scale-length plasmas under direct-drive National Ignition Facility conditions

  Physics of Plasmas · 1999 · 10.1063/1.873716

• Modeling Astrophysical Phenomena in the Laboratory with Intense Lasers

  Science · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.284.5419.1488

• Supernova hydrodynamics experiments on the Nova laser

  Physics of Plasmas · 1997 · 10.1063/1.872341

• The frequency and damping of ion acoustic waves in hydrocarbon (CH) and two-ion-species plasmas

  Physics of Plasmas · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.871101

• Measurements of inverse bremsstrahlung absorption and non-Maxwellian electron velocity distributions

  Physical Review Letters · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.72.2717

• Nova experimental facility (invited)

  Review of Scientific Instruments · 1986 · https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1138755

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