Modeling of Imploded Annular Plasmas.
Abstract
This report treats three areas of advance during the 1980 effort: (I) improvements to the 1-D strongly-coupled plasma implosion and radiation code SPLAT and results of radiative yield studies using the code; (II) development of formalism for solving the field penetration/skin-depth problem in an inhomogeneous, time-varying imploding conductor in a plasma-loaded diode; (III) circuit equation and scaling of hard radiation in the presence of fully developed sausage instability (beading) of the assembled plasma. In addition, a short section (Chapter V) is devoted to work in progress: high-accuracy matrix inversion techniques and interpolators for solving the generalized Hertz vector equations used in II above, and for following CRE equations and diffusive behavior in general; and, beginning plans for modifying 1-D MHD codes, making them compatible with the field-diffusion and corona programs and with CRE radiation packages.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA099720
Entities
People
- John U. Guillory
- Robert E. Terry