The “Baikal” project and investigations of radiating Z-pinches at the “Angara-5-1” facility

In the work presented are the results of the investigations into the physics of implosion of multiple wire arrays from various elements carried out on the Angara-5-1 facility. To study the process of prolonged plasma production for such arrays some microprobes placed inside the liner were applied. As a result a dependence of the time taken by a magnetic field to penetrate the half radius of the liner on its wire substance type has been found. Study into the process of compression both along the pinch radius and axis was carried out in experiments with conic arrays. Such experiments along with calculations permit clarifying 3-D effects arising in compressing these wire arrays. We describe the results produced by a MEVL code for simulation magnetically insolated vacuum transmission lines (MIVL), which are connected in parallel. This simulation has been tested on the Angara-5-I installation. The results of experiments performed on MOL installation for Baikal project about energy transfer at millisecond time scale are presented.