Shock experiments with magnetically accelerated flyer plates

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Nov 2008

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American Physical Society, 50th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, November 17-21, 2008, abstract #UP6.052

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The interaction of shock waves with inhomogeneous media is important in many astrophysical phenomena. Modelling these phenomena in the laboratory yields additional information to improve both simulations and the interpretation of astrophysical observations. Scaled experiments using magnetically accelerated flyers impacting on low density foam targets have been proposed for the Z machine at the Sandia National Laboratories (R.P. Drake, Phys. Plasmas 2002). Carrying out such experiments on smaller machines like the UNR pulsed power generator Zebra reduces the costs significantly and thus enables a broader scan of experimental parameters. Our experiments at the Nevada Terawatt Facility study the flyer acceleration (reaching flyer velocities of up to 5 km/s) and the impact of the flyers on transparent targets with low sound speeds in order to create shock waves. Optical diagnostics are used to study the interaction of the flyers with the transparent target.

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