Design of a 20-MJ coaxial generator
Abstract
A design is presented for an explosive driven sweeping wave coaxial generator. The generator is required to deliver 20 MJ to a 10 nH load with a final current doubling time of 10 (SIGMA)s. A simple model of the armature motion taken into account both the explosive drive and the back pressure of the magnetic field. Shock and diffusion losses are combined in a self consistent manner with the armature dynamics to give a circuit model for the generator. The scaling of this design to higher energies is discussed.
- Publication:
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Presented at the 3rd Intern. Conf. on Magagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Related Topics
- Pub Date:
- March 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983mmfg.confS..13F
- Keywords:
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- Electric Generators;
- Energy Conversion Efficiency;
- Explosives;
- Armatures;
- Design Analysis;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering