Stable implosion of double gas puff with long time implosion

Author

Baksht, R.B. ; Fedunin, A.V. ; Labetsky, A.Y. ; Oreshkin, V.I. ; Russkikh, A.G. ; Shishlov, A.V. ; Drie, A. Van

Author_Institution

Inst. of High-Current Electron., Acad. of Sci., Tomsk, Russia

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

6/20/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

235

Abstract

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is well known to be the main impediment to the efficient implosion of gas puffs with a large initial radius. This has been demonstrated in a number of experiments. The R-T instability could be mitigated by the so-called snowplow mechanism responsible for enhanced efficiency of multilayer gas puff Z-pinch loads. The snowplow mechanism employs the stability of the shock wave driven into the load by magnetic pressure. The snowplow stability mechanism is used both in multilayer gas puffs and in structured loads such as large-diameter uniform fill loads and Z-pinch loads with tailored density profiles

Keywords

Rayleigh-Taylor instability; Z pinch; exploding wires; plasma density; plasma shock waves; Rayleigh-Taylor instability; double gas puff; large-diameter uniform fill loads; long time implosion; multilayer gas puff Z-pinch loads; shock wave; snowplow mechanism; stable implosion; tailored density profiles; Aluminum; Argon; Cameras; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic multilayers; Plasma temperature; Skin; Sparks; Stability; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Power Particle Beams, 1998. BEAMS '98. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Haifa

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4287-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BEAMS.1998.822421

Filename

822421