Experimental study of plasma implosion dynamics in a two-stage wire array Z-pinch configuration

This thesis presents results from experiments of a two-stage wire array Z-pinch configuration carried out on the MAGPIE generator ( ~ 1.4MA in ~ 250ns) at Imperial College, London. This configuration preconditions the load wires (heating and expanding wires into columns of gas) before allowing the f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khoory, Essa
Other Authors: Lebedev, Sergey
Published: Imperial College London 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616738