Calculations for Explosive Magnetic Generators
Abstract
This is a translation of a Soviet paper which develops generalized criteria for optimum design of an explosive magnetic generator. Studies on techniques for pulsed compression of magnetic fields, with the resultant high pulse power generation, were actively pursued in the late 1960s and the early 1970s both here and abroad. In recent years the interest in these techniques appears to have dwindled, notably in the U.S. A recent search by the Smithsonian Science Information Exchange, in fact indicates no current U.S. research program under way on explosive compression of magnetic fields. In contrast, a continuing study of explosive cumulation is being maintained in the USSR, in particular under the direction of Bichenkov and Lobanov at Novosibirsk. These authors have published a series of papers on theoretical and experimental aspects of explosive compression, in which both coaxial and planar sandwich geometries have been investigated.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 26, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA107746
Entities
People
- Stuart G. Hibben