Calculation model of the plasma load matching with the current sources based on explosive magnetic generator

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we consider the model of engineering calculation for the matching of the explosive-magnetic generators (EMG) and pulsed plasma accelerator (PPA) at amplitudes of currents reaching 2.5 MA. The main features of the model are taking into account the dynamics of change in the inductance of PPA and the using of the concentrated mass approximation for the current shell. The taken assumptions were checked by experimental data on real PPA powered by EMG. It is shown that the built model has sufficient accuracy for preliminary calculations for design and installation of such technique.