On Models of Pulse Power Storage and Forming Lines

Summary form only given. We consider a theoretical RLC-circuit model of a device, the magnetic-flux compression generator (MCG). The energy conversion in the inductive storage circuit occurs in two stages. Initially, the energy that is partially lost for fuse heating is stored in the inductance; this stage is simultaneously one of heating and of accumulation of magnetic energy. At the second stage, the fuse resistance is determined mainly by the density of expanding metal and grows by a few orders of magnitude in a short time (explosion stage), when the magnetic field energy of increasing power is released into the fast-rising resistance of the fuse. We discuss the procedure of the detonation of MCG, how the energy efficiency varies with respect to inductance and the electro-explosive opening switch parameters, and how the energy is released to the load.