Electrical wire explosion as a source of underwater shock waves

H Shi, G Yin, X Li, J Wu, AB Murphy… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The underwater electrical wire explosion (UEWE) is an appealing source of underwater
shock waves (SWs) with a high conversion efficiency from electrical energy to mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of wire size on electrical and shock-wave characteristics in underwater electrical explosions of aluminum wires

S Zhang, W Chen, Y Lu, Y Zhang, S Wang, A Qiu… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Initial wire resistance is an important parameter in an underwater electrical wire explosion
because it directly affects the discharge characteristics of the circuit and indirectly affects the …

Coating Effect on Dark Pause Time Decay Constant in Exploding Wire System

D Smirnoff, L Bernal, L Bilbao - IEEE Transactions on Plasma …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study investigates the phenomenon of exploding wire (EW), focusing on the decrease
in electrical current during the dark pause (dp) in copper filament explosions in atmospheric …