A three-dimensional model of wire array instability, ablation, and jetting

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2 II, 2002, Pages 588-592

  Haines, M G ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Magnetic confinement; Magnetohydrodynamics; Plasma pinch; X ray production

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; X RAY PRODUCTION;

WIRE ARRAY INSTABILITY;

PINCH EFFECT;

EID: 0036549668     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.1024293     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Azimuthal structure and global instability in the implosion phase of wire array Z pinch experiments
2. A heuristic model of the wire array Z pinch
3. Formation of axial foreplasma channel in the initial stage of the compression of a multiwire system by megampere currents (experimental)
4. The dynamics of single and nested nickel wire array Z pinch implosions
5. Effect of core-corona plasma structure on seeding of instabilities in wire array Z pinches
6. Effect of discrete wires on the implosion dynamics of wire array Z pinches
7. Observation of a stable dense core within an unstable coronal plasma in wire-initiated dense Z pinch experiments
8. Multiphase foamlike structure of exploding wire cores
9. Transport in laser-produced plasmas
10. Nonspitzer heat flow in a steadily ablating laser-produced plasma
11. Plasma transport coefficients in a magnetic field by direct numerical solution of the Fokker-Planck equation
12. The past, present, and future of Z pinches
13. The effect of current prepulse on wire array Z pinch implosions
14. Ideal magneto hydrodynamic linear instabilities in the Z pinch
15. Optical and X-ray observations of carbon and aluminum fiber Z pinch plasmas
16. Thermal instability and magnetic field generated by cage heat flow in a plasma, especially under laser fusion conditions