Full axial coverage radiography of deformable contact liner implosion performed with 8 cm diameter electrode apertures

Digest of Technical Papers-IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1239-1241

  Degnan, J H ^a   Amdahl, D ^a   Brown, A ^a,b   Cavazos, T ^a,c   Coffey, S K ^a,b   Craddock, G G ^a,b   Frese, M H ^a,b   Frese, S D ^a,b   Gale, D ^a,c   Grabowski, T C ^a,c   Guffey, B ^a,c   Kiuttu, G F ^a   Lehr, F M ^a   Letterio, J D ^a   Peterkin Jr , R E ^a   Roderick, N F ^a,d   Ruden, E L ^a   Siemon, R E ^a,e   Sommars, W ^a,c   Thio, Y F C ^a,f   Tucker, W ^a   Turchi, P J ^a   more..

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NUMEREX   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d University of New Mexico   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^f DOE OFES

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CAPACITORS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROLYSIS; ENERGY STORAGE; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; TARGETS;

(N ,F) RADIOGRAPHY; CAPACITOR BANKS; CONVERGENCE (MATHEMATICS); DEFORMABLE CONTACT LINER IMPLOSION; ELECTRODE CONTACTS; FIELD-REVERSED CONFIGURATION (FRC); INNER DIAMETER (ID); MAGNETIZED TARGET FUSION (MTF); OUTER DIAMETER (OD); PULSED-POWER; RADIOGRAPHIC DATA; VARYING THICKNESS; Z PINCHES;

METALLIZING;

EID: 45149114043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PPC.2005.300579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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