Validation of an Exploding-Wire Circuit Model

Abstract

A series of exploding-wire experiments involving copper, aluminum, tungsten, and titanium wires was performed as part of a program whose ultimate aim is to validate the multiphysics code ALEGRA. This work describes the results of these exploding-wire experiments and reports on the efficacy of a circuit model developed to predict key features in the data such as peak current and the timing of phase changes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1146316

Entities

People

  • Paul R. Berning
  • W. C. Uhlig

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aluminum
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Capacitors
  • Ceramic Materials
  • Electricity
  • Exploding Wires
  • Heat Of Formation
  • High Temperature
  • High Voltage
  • Inductance
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Standards
  • Thermophysical Properties
  • Titanium
  • Tungsten

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.