Krypton gas puff experiments on a 4 MA pulsed power generator

Author

Deeney, C. ; LePell, P.D. ; Failor, B.H. ; Meachum, J. ; Wong, S. ; Thornhill, J.W. ; Hitney, K.G. ; Cochran, F.L.

Author_Institution

Physics International Co., San Leandro, CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

7-9 June 1993

Firstpage

165

Abstract

Summary form only given, as follows. Radius and current scaling with krypton gas puff Z-pinches was investigated. These experiments are performed on the 6-TW, 4-MA Double-EAGLE generator. The krypton L-shell radiated yield is optimized for a 4 cm diameter nozzle, with a ten degree inward tilt. Results on the yield versus current and gas admixture percentages have been obtained. The effects of nozzle geometries have been studied, and time-resolved diagnostics was used to study the implosion dynamics. The experimental data have been compared to 1D and 2D radiation-hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic calculations.

Keywords

krypton; 4 TW; Double-EAGLE generator; Kr; Kr gas puff; L-shell; Z-pinches; current scaling; implosion dynamics; nozzle geometries; radius scaling; time-resolved diagnostics; Conductivity; Heating; Laboratories; Physics; Plasma confinement; Plasma sources; Plasma temperature; Plasma x-ray sources; Power generation; Pulse generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 1993. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts., 1993 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC, Canada

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1360-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.1993.593465

Filename

593465