Pulsed power accelerators compress electrical energy in space and time to provide versatile
experimental platforms for high energy density and inertial confinement fusion science. The …

Recent studies of power flow and particle transport in multi-MA pulsed-power accelerators
demonstrate that electrode plasmas may reduce accelerator efficiency by shunting current …

Magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) is a magneto-inertial-fusion (MIF) concept, which is
presently being studied on the Z pulsed power facility. The MagLIF platform has achieved …

A challenge for the TW-class accelerators driving Z-pinch experiments, such as Sandia
National Laboratories' Z machine, is to efficiently couple power from multiple storage banks …

Kinetic simulations of Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine are conducted to understand
particle transport in the highly magnetized environment of a multi-MA accelerator. Joule …

Using the analogy between hydrodynamic and electrical current flow, we study how
electrical current density j redistributes and amplifies due to two commonly encountered …

In this work, we use the Brillouin flow analytic framework to examine the physics of
Magnetically Insulated Transmission Lines (MITL). We derive a model applicable to any …

Hybrid-implicit particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms permit the simulation of complex problems
involving both kinetic and fluid plasma regimes over large spatial and temporal scales. Fluid …

The dynamical formation of a Z-pinch in the strong-shock limit is studied in this paper using
one-dimensional (1D) simulations of a two-temperature magnetohydrodynamic model. The …

To study the effect of the radial density profile of the material of a metal-plasma Z-pinch load
on the development of magneto-Rayleigh–Taylor (MRT) instabilities, experiments have …