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@inproceedings{Jones:2006:10.1063/1.2174833,
author = {Jones, B and Garasi, CJ and Ampleford, DJ and Deeney, C and Mehlhorn, TA and Bland, SN and Lebedev, SV and Chittenden, JP and Bott, SC and Palmer, JBA and Hall, GN and Rapley, J},
doi = {10.1063/1.2174833},
title = {Measurement and modeling of the implosion of wire arrays with seeded instabilities},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2174833},
year = {2006}
}
TY - CPAPER
AB - In order to study wire array Z-pinch instabilities, perturbations have been seeded by etching 15 μm diameter aluminum wires to introduce 20% modulations in radius with a controlled axial wavelength. These perturbations seed additional imploding structures that are studied experimentally on the 1 MA, 250 ns MAGPIE generator [S. V. Lebedev, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 47, A91 (2005)] and with three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic calculations using the ALEGRA-HEDP [A. C. Robinson and C. J. Garasi, Comput. Phys. Commun. 164, 408 (2004)] and GORGON [J. P. Chittenden, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 46, B457 (2004)] codes. Simulations indicate that current path nonuniformity at discontinuities in the wire radius result in perturbation-induced magnetic bubble formation. Imploding bubbles originating from discontinuities are observed experimentally, and their collision on axis determines the start of the main x-ray pulse rise. These mechanisms likely govern dynamics of standard wire array Z pinches, and tailoring the profile of imploding mass may allow x-ray pulse shaping for inertial confinement fusion applications. © 2006 American Institute of Physics.
AU - Jones,B
AU - Garasi,CJ
AU - Ampleford,DJ
AU - Deeney,C
AU - Mehlhorn,TA
AU - Bland,SN
AU - Lebedev,SV
AU - Chittenden,JP
AU - Bott,SC
AU - Palmer,JBA
AU - Hall,GN
AU - Rapley,J
DO - 10.1063/1.2174833
PY - 2006///
SN - 1070-664X
TI - Measurement and modeling of the implosion of wire arrays with seeded instabilities
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2174833
ER -
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