Abstract
The paper reports on experiments to investigate how the quality of surface finish, i.e., surface roughness, influences the plasma formation in a skin explosion of conductors. The experiments were performed on a MIG terawatt generator with a current amplitude of up to 2.5 MA and current rise time of 100 ns. The plasma formation at the conductor surface and the evolution of the plasma boundary was recorded using a four-frame optical camera with an exposure time of 3 ns per frame. It is shown that the quality of surface finish little affects the onset of plasma formation in a skin explosion of stainless steel and St3 steel conductors at a magnetic field of up to 400 T.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 012194 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |
| Volume | 774 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 27 Nov 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 31st International Conference on Equations of State for Matter, ELBRUS 2016 - Elbrus, Russian Federation Duration: 1 Mar 2016 → 6 Mar 2016 |
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- Physics and Astronomy(all)
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Datsko, I. M., Chaikovsky, S. A., Labetskaya, N. A., Rybka, D. V., Oreshkin, V. I., & Khishchenko, K. V. (2016). Influence of surface finish on the plasma formation at the skin explosion. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 774(1), [012194]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/774/1/012194