Abstract Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instabilities are well-known
pathways towards turbulent mixing layers, in many cases characterized by significant mass …

The Z-pinch, perhaps the oldest subject in plasma physics, has achieved a remarkable
renaissance in recent years, following a few decades of neglect due to its basically unstable …

The spectacular progress made during the last few years in reaching high energy densities
in fast implosions of annular current sheaths (fast Z pinches) opens new possibilities for a …

Nested-wire arrays on the 20-MA Z-pinch accelerator have produced x-ray powers up to
280±40 TW (a 40% increase over a single array) and an x-ray pulse width of 4 ns. The short …

A phenomenological model of wire array Z-pinch implosions, based on the analysis of
experimental data obtained on the mega-ampere generator for plasma implosion …

Fisher and collaborators at the University of California, Irvine, invented the gas puff Z-pinch
in the late 1970s using a 200-kA generator. The implementation of gas puffs as a copious …

This paper explores the role of electro-thermal instabilities on the dynamics of magnetically
accelerated implosion systems. Electro-thermal instabilities result from non-uniform heating …

A supervised machine learning algorithm trained on a multi-petabyte dataset of inertial
confinement fusion simulations has identified a class of implosions that robustly achieve …

The effect of discrete wires on the implosion dynamics of wire array Z-pinch experiments
at∼ 1 MA current level is discussed. The data show that the formation of a core–corona …

A linear transformer driver (LTD) generator capable of delivering up to 0.9 MA current pulses
with 160 ns rise time has been assembled and commissioned at University of California San …