Cylindrical Liner Z-pinches as Drivers for Converging Strong Shock Experiments

The thesis describes the development of an entirely new experimental platform for generating and studying converging radiative shock waves. It was discovered that the application of large magnetic pressures to gas-filled cylindrical metallic tubes could sequentially produce three shocks within the g...

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Main Author: Burdiak, Guy C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06962-3
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505 0 |a Introduction -- The MAGPIE Generator and Diagnostics -- Plasma Formation and Ablation Dynamics in Thin-Foil Liners -- The Interaction of Ablation from a Thin-Foil Liner with a Gas-Fill -- Production and Evolution of Multiple Converging Radiative Shocks -- Development of a Vacuum Resistive Voltage Divider -- Conclusions and Future Work. 
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