R Paul Drake

Employment

• University of Michigan Professor
  1996 - Present
• University of California Davis Professor
  1989 - 1993
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Physicist
  1979 - 1996
• Johns Hopkins University Graduate Student
  1975 - 1979

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

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Publications (339)

• Laboratory-generated photoionization fronts relevant to astrophysics
  Physics of Plasmas 2026 DOI: 10.1063/5.0309621
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• Radiation drive designed to extend the pressure ranges measured in Gbar equation of state experiments at the National Ignition Facility
  Physics of Plasmas 2025 DOI: 10.1063/5.0289630
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• X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements of radiatively ionized argon gas
  Physics of Plasmas 2025 DOI: 10.1063/5.0254083
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• Examining astrophysical gas cloud collapse using an optical depth-scaled, x-ray-irradiated, carbon-foam sphere
  Physics of Plasmas 2025 DOI: 10.1063/5.0220781
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• The evolution of curvature in planar, photoionization-driven heat fronts
  Physics of Plasmas 2022 DOI: 10.1063/5.0088624
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• The design of a photoionization front experiment using the Z-Machine as a driving source and estimated measurements
  Physics of Plasmas 2021 DOI: 10.1063/5.0049527
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• Electron acceleration in laboratory-produced turbulent collisionless shocks
  Nature Physics 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-0919-4
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• Design and Scaling of an Omega-EP Experiment to Study Cold Streams Feeding Early Galaxies
  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2019 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ab4a15
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• Atomic modeling of photoionization fronts in nitrogen gas
  Physics of Plasmas 2019 DOI: 10.1063/1.5090803
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• Construction and validation of a statistical model for the nonlinear Kelvin-Helmholtz instability under compressible, multimode conditions
  Physics of Plasmas 2018 DOI: 10.1063/1.5060958
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