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ProfessorSergeyLebedev

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Plasma Physics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7748s.lebedev Website

 
 
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Location

 

743Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Suzuki:2018:10.1109/TPS.2018.2868757,
author = {Suzuki, Vidal F and Clayson, T and Lebedev, S and Hare, J and Halliday, J and Suttle, L and Tubman, E},
doi = {10.1109/TPS.2018.2868757},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science},
pages = {3734--3740},
title = {Inverse liner z-pinch: an experimental pulsed power platform for studying radiative shocks},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2018.2868757},
volume = {46},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We present a new experimental platform for studying radiative shocks using an ``inverse liner z-pinch'' configuration. This platform was tested on the MAGPIE pulsed power facility (~1 MA with a rise time of ~240 ns) at Imperial College London, U.K. Current is discharged through a thin-walled metal tube (a liner) embedded in a low-density gas-fill and returned through a central post. The resulting magnetic pressure inside the liner launched a cylindrically symmetric, expanding radiative shock into the gas-fill at ~10 km/s. This experimental platform provides good diagnostic access, allowing multiframe optical self-emission imaging, laser interferometry, and optical emission spectrography to be fielded. Results from experiments with an Argon gas-fill initially at 0.04 mg/cm³are presented, demonstrating the successful production of cylindrically symmetric, expanding shocks that exhibit radiative effects such as the formation of a radiative precursor.
AU  - Suzuki,Vidal F
AU  - Clayson,T
AU  - Lebedev,S
AU  - Hare,J
AU  - Halliday,J
AU  - Suttle,L
AU  - Tubman,E
DO  - 10.1109/TPS.2018.2868757
EP  - 3740
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 0093-3813
SP  - 3734
TI  - Inverse liner z-pinch: an experimental pulsed power platform for studying radiative shocks
T2  - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2018.2868757
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/63015
VL  - 46
ER  -
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