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A time-dependent model for high-pressure discharges in narrow ablative capillaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

D. Zoler
Affiliation:
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
S. Cuperman
Affiliation:
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
J. Ashkenazy
Affiliation:
Soreq Nuclear Research Center, 70600 Yavne, Israel
M. Caner
Affiliation:
Soreq Nuclear Research Center, 70600 Yavne, Israel
Z. Kaplan
Affiliation:
Soreq Nuclear Research Center, 70600 Yavne, Israel

Extract

A time-dependent quasi-one-dimensional model is developed for studying high- pressure discharges in ablative capillaries used, for example, as plasma sources in electrothermal launchers. The main features of the model are (i) consideration of ablation effects in each of the continuity, momentum and energy equations; (ii) use of a non-ideal equation of state; and (iii) consideration of space- and time-dependent ionization.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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