DocumentCode
1212972
Title
Inductive Store Pulse Compression System for Driving High Speed Plasma Implosions
Author
Reinovsky, R.E. ; Smith, D.L. ; Baker, W.L. ; Degnan, J.H. ; Henderson, R.P. ; Kohn, R.J. ; Kloc, D.A. ; Roderick, N.F.
Volume
10
Issue
2
fYear
1982
fDate
6/1/1982 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
73
Lastpage
81
Abstract
The Air Force Weapon Laboratory has investigated and developed inductive pulse compression techniques with fuse opening switches for driving high speed plasma implosions. Experiments have demonstrated the delivery of 7.5 MA to a 5-nH load in < 200 ns from an initial 1.9-MJ 2-¿s capacitor bank via inductive pulse compression. Circuit considerations dictate the overall energy efficiency while MHD considerations dictate overall implosion stability and thermalization time. Theoretical considerations along with initial experiment results are presented in this paper.
Keywords
Capacitors; Circuits; Energy efficiency; Fuses; Laboratories; Magnetohydrodynamics; Plasma stability; Pulse compression methods; Switches; Weapons;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0093-3813
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TPS.1982.4316144
Filename
4316144
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