Plasma Flow Switch Experiment on Procyon

Abstract

We report here results obtained from a series of plasma flow switch experiments done on the Procyon explosive pulse power generator. These experiments involved switching into a fixed inductance dummy load and also into a dynamic implosion load. The results indicated that the switch did fairly well at switching current into the load, but the results for the implosion are more ambiguous. We compare these results to calculations and discuss the implications for future pl~ma flow switch work.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA639761

Entities

People

  • B. Anderson
  • D. Peterson
  • F. J. Wysocki
  • G. Idzorek
  • Henn Oona
  • J. F. Benage Jr.
  • J. Goforth
  • J. S. Shlachter
  • Robert M. Bowers
  • William Anderson

Organizations

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aluminum
  • Aluminum Foil
  • Boundary Layer
  • Detectors
  • Explosives
  • Generators
  • Implosions
  • Inductance
  • Magnetic Forces
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Radiation
  • Simulations
  • Switches
  • Switching
  • X Rays
  • X-Ray Detectors

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Theoretical Analysis.