Decade Quad Monolithic POS Modeling
Abstract
The Decade Quad (DQ) was initially fielded as a large area bremsstrahlung (LAB) source. This utilized the four Decade modules (DM) triggered simultaneously but each driving a separate hard x-ray bremsstrahlung radiation source (BRS). Recently, water convolute hardware was installed that combines the power from the four Decade modules to drive a soft x-ray plasma radiation source (PRS). The water convolute configuration also enables the use of a monolithic plasma opening switch (MPOS) for driving a common BRS or PRS load. The work reported here was performed in support of the use of an ACE 4 type POS on DQ. The modeling included equivalent circuit and DELTA-CREMIT magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. The circuit analysis extracted equivalent circuit parameters from ACE 4 data and applied them to the planned DQ MPOS-BRS configuration. The MHD analyses evaluated strategies to optimize the DQ MPOS.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA639025
Entities
People
- Don Parks
- Eduardo Waisman
- G. L. Whitehead
- John Douglas
- John W Thompson
- Ken Ware
- Mark Babineau
- Michael Danforth
- Patrick Corcoran
- Paul Steen
- Peter Kurucz
- Philip Coleman
- Philip Spence
- Randy Crumley
- Terry Tucker
- Van Kenyon
- W. Rix