Underwater electrical explosion of wires: Physics and applications

Author

Krasik, Yakov E.

Author_Institution

Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

fYear

2015

fDate

24-28 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Summary form only given. Underwater electrical explosion of single wires in 10^-7s-10^-6s timescales for research related to Equation of States and conductivity models of different materials and underwater electrical explosion of either cylindrical or spherical wire arrays for the generation of converging strong shock waves for studying compressed water at extreme conditions will be presented. In addition, the stability of azimuthal non-uniformities in cylindrical converging shock wave, as well as the generation of cumulative jets by underwater electrical explosion of x-pinch and conical wire configurations, will be discussed together with the results of strong shock waves convergence in super-spherical geometry.

Keywords

explosions; pinch effect; plasma jets; plasma shock waves; plasma transport processes; wires (electric); azimuthal nonuniformities; compressed water; conductivity models; conical wire configurations; cumulative jets; cylindrical converging shock waves; cylindrical wire arrays; equation of states; spherical wire arrays; super-spherical geometry; underwater electrical explosion; x-pinch; Conductivity; Explosions; Mathematical model; Shock waves; Stability analysis; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Sciences (ICOPS), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Antalya

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2015.7180027

Filename

7180027