Damaged Surface Hydrodynamics (DSH) Flash Report

Technical Report · Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1178310· OSTI ID:1178310

Rousculp, Christopher L. ^[1]; Oro, David Michael ^[1]; Morris, Christopher ^[1]; Saunders, Alexander ^[1]; Reass, William ^[1]; Griego, Jeffrey Randall ^[1]; Turchi, Peter John ^[1]; Reinovsky, Robert Emil ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

In an effort to understand the complex hydrodynamic flow present when a non-ideal (or damaged) surface between a dense, solid-state metal impinges on a light, gas in converging geometry, two DSH experiments have been conducted at the LANL LANSCE pRad facility utilizing magnetic drive from the Precision High Energy-density Liner Implosion eXperiment (PHELIX) pulsed power capacitor bank. Here a tungsten power coated target aluminum cylinder was filled with inert gas (Ar/Xe). An outer aluminum cylinder is magnetically accelerated and impacts the target shock launching the powder into the gas and compressing the cylinder until such time as the increase in gas pressure causes stagnation. Each experiment is imaged with a 21-frame proton radiography movie where gas shocks, powder distribution, and target cylinder are clearly visible. These two experiments complement the DSH-0 experiment from FY14 where the target cylinder was evacuated as a control case.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1178310
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-15-22889
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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