Calculation of Thomson scattering spectral fits for interpenetrating flows
- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BW (United Kingdom)
- Sandia National Laboratories, PO Box 5800, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1193 (United States)
- Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2JI (Canada)
- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom SW7 2BW and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551 (United States)
- Key Laboratory of Pulsed Power, Institute of Fluid Physics, CAE, Mianyang 621900 (China)
Collective mode optical Thomson scattering has been used to investigate the interactions of radially convergent ablation flows in Tungsten wire arrays. These experiments were carried out at the Magpie pulsed power facility at Imperial College, London. Analysis of the scattered spectra has provided direct evidence of ablation stream interpenetration on the array axis, and has also revealed a previously unobserved axial deflection of the ablation streams towards the anode as they approach the axis. It is has been suggested that this deflection is caused by the presence of a static magnetic field, advected with the ablation streams, stagnated and accrued around the axis. Analysis of the Thomson scattering spectra involved the calculation and fitting of the multi-component, non-relativistic, Maxwellian spectral density function S (k, ω). The method used to calculate the fits of the data are discussed in detail.
- OSTI ID:
- 22390815
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1639, Issue 1; Conference: 9. International Conference on Dense Z Pinches, Napa, CA (United States), 3-7 Aug 2014; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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