Kinetic and electrical energy profiles in a plasma focus device

Summary form only given, as follows. The dynamics of the plasma focus device based on the Snow Plough model was treated to include the distribution of kinetic energy, electrical energy and power input profiles with in the axial phase. The theoretical model shows that the distribution of energies show strong dependence on the ratio of the periodic time of the external circuit to the transit time of the current sheath motion in the axial phase. Experimentally, magnetic probe signals at various axial positions were used to estimate velocity of the current sheath. Kinetic energies evaluated from experimental values of the velocity were compared with the theoretical kinetic energy distribution. It is observed that experimental values of kinetic energy are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions.