| Laser-direct-drive program: Promise, challenge, and path forward EM Campbell, VN Goncharov, TC Sangster, SP Regan, PB Radha, R Betti, ... Matter and Radiation at Extremes 2 (2), 37-54, 2017 | 143 | 2017 |
| Origins and scaling of hot-electron preheat in ignition-scale direct-drive inertial confinement fusion experiments MJ Rosenberg, AA Solodov, JF Myatt, W Seka, P Michel, M Hohenberger, ... Physical review letters 120 (5), 055001, 2018 | 142 | 2018 |
| Shock ignition target design for inertial fusion energy AJ Schmitt, JW Bates, SP Obenschain, ST Zalesak, DE Fyfe Physics of Plasmas 17 (4), 2010 | 104 | 2010 |
| The D'yakov-Kontorovich instability of shock waves in real gases JW Bates, DC Montgomery Physical Review Letters 84 (6), 1180, 2000 | 77 | 2000 |
| Polar-direct-drive experiments on the National Ignition Facility M Hohenberger, PB Radha, JF Myatt, S LePape, JA Marozas, FJ Marshall, ... Physics of Plasmas 22 (5), 2015 | 68 | 2015 |
| Mitigation of cross-beam energy transfer in inertial-confinement-fusion plasmas with enhanced laser bandwidth JW Bates, JF Myatt, JG Shaw, RK Follett, JL Weaver, RH Lehmberg, ... Physical Review E 97 (6), 061202, 2018 | 63 | 2018 |
| Experimental Evidence of Impact Ignition: 100-Fold Increase of Neutron Yield<? format?> by Impactor Collision H Azechi, T Sakaiya, T Watari, M Karasik, H Saito, K Ohtani, K Takeda, ... Physical review letters 102 (23), 235002, 2009 | 61 | 2009 |
| Acceleration to high velocities and heating by impact using Nike KrF laser M Karasik, JL Weaver, Y Aglitskiy, T Watari, Y Arikawa, T Sakaiya, J Oh, ... Physics of Plasmas 17 (5), 2010 | 56 | 2010 |
| Direct drive fusion energy shock ignition designs for sub-MJ lasers AJ Schmitt, JW Bates, SP Obenschain, ST Zalesak, DE Fyfe, R Betti Fusion science and technology 56 (1), 377-383, 2009 | 45 | 2009 |
| Initial-value-problem solution for isolated rippled shock fronts in arbitrary fluid media JW Bates Physical Review E 69 (5), 056313, 2004 | 45 | 2004 |
| Some numerical studies of exotic shock wave behavior JW Bates, DC Montgomery Physics of Fluids 11 (2), 462-475, 1999 | 43 | 1999 |
| On consistent time-integration methods for radiation hydrodynamics in the equilibrium diffusion limit: low-energy-density regime JW Bates, DA Knoll, WJ Rider, RB Lowrie, VA Mousseau Journal of Computational Physics 167 (1), 99-130, 2001 | 39 | 2001 |
| Direct drive with the argon fluoride laser as a path to high fusion gain with sub-megajoule laser energy SP Obenschain, AJ Schmitt, JW Bates, MF Wolford, MC Myers, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 378 (2184), 20200031, 2020 | 36 | 2020 |
| Towards realization of hyper-velocities for impact fast ignition M Murakami, H Nagatomo, T Sakaiya, H Azechi, S Fujioka, H Shiraga, ... Plasma physics and controlled fusion 47 (12B), B815, 2005 | 33 | 2005 |
| Theory of the corrugation instability of a piston-driven shock wave JW Bates Physical Review E 91 (1), 013014, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
| Time-dependent perturbation theory for the construction of invariants of Hamiltonian systems HR Lewis, JW Bates, JM Finn Physics Letters A 215 (3-4), 160-166, 1996 | 28 | 1996 |
| Toroidal visco-resistive magnetohydrodynamic steady states contain vortices JW Bates, DC Montgomery Physics of Plasmas 5 (7), 2649-2653, 1998 | 27 | 1998 |
| Suppressing cross-beam energy transfer with broadband lasers JW Bates, RK Follett, JG Shaw, SP Obenschain, RH Lehmberg, JF Myatt, ... High Energy Density Physics 36, 100772, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
| Numerical simulations of the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability in planar inertial-confinement-fusion targets using the FastRad3D code JW Bates, AJ Schmitt, M Karasik, ST Zalesak Physics of Plasmas 23 (12), 2016 | 26 | 2016 |
| Instability of isolated planar shock waves JW Bates Physics of Fluids 19 (9), 2007 | 24 | 2007 |
