How do plasma flow switches scale with current? Issues in the 6 MA to 30 MA regime

Conference · Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:102172

Bowers, R L; Greene, A E; Nakafuji, G; Peterson, D L; Roderick, N F

Point mass calculations are used to model switched implosions on several pulsed power machines. The model includes a lumped circuit representation of the pulsed power source. A simple switching model is used to describe a standard plasma flow switch. Implosion kinetic energies are obtained at a convergence ratio of 20 to 1. Heuristic arguments are used to estimate the plasma temperature at pinch, the total x-ray output and the radiation pulse width. Switched models are presented for Pegasus II, Shiva Star, Procyon and Atlas.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 102172
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-95-2437; CONF-950750-9; ON: DE95016885; TRN: AHC29524%%52
• Resource Relation: Conference: 10. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) pulsed power conference, Albuquerque, NM (United States), 10-13 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION
POWER SUPPLIES
SWITCHES
MHD GENERATORS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
KINETIC ENERGY
COMPUTER CALCULATIONS