Full Axial Coverage Radiography of Deformable Contact Liner Implosion Performed with 8 CM Diameter Electrode Apertures

Abstract

We obtained full axial coverage radiography of a deformable contact imploding liner. This radiographic data indicates the feasibility of using a varying thickness in a long cylindrical solid liner, driven as a 12 megamp Z-pinch, to achieve factor approximate 16 cylindrical convergence, while using 8 cm diameter aperture electrodes. The Al liner was 30 cm long, with 9.78 cm inner diameter for its full length, 10.0 cm outer diameter for the central 18 cm of its length, and outer diameter increased linearly to 10.2 cm at 1 cm from either electrode, and to 11 cm at electrode contacts. The electrode apertures allow injection of Field Reversed Configurations in proposed future experiments on magnetized target fusion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA635226

Entities

People

  • Alyssa Brown
  • D. Amdahl
  • D. Gale
  • G. G. Craddock
  • J. H. Degnan
  • M. H. Frese
  • S. D. Frese
  • S. K. Coffey
  • T. C. Grabowski
  • T. Cavazos

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Compression
  • Convergence
  • Diameters
  • Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Geometry
  • Implosions
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Nuclear Engineering
  • Pulsed Power
  • Radiography
  • Simulations
  • Thickness
  • Z-Pinches

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrochemical Engineering/ Fuel Cell Technologies
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.