Electrothermal (ET) plasma discharges are capillary discharges that ablate liner materials
and form partially ionized plasma. ET plasma discharges are generated by driving current …

A capillary-extended converging–diverging transition region was previously proposed to
allow for the flow and expansion of plasma into a large volume simulating aerosol …

Generalized operational scaling laws have been developed for the peak plasma parameters
at the exit of an electrothermal plasma capillary discharge. These parameters are the total …

Electrothermal (ET) plasma launchers have a wide array of applications as mass
acceleration devices. An ET plasma launcher utilizes an ET plasma discharge to accelerate …

Future fusion reactors are expected to experience hard current disruptions that quench the
confined plasma and depositing the energy on the plasma facing materials, thus causing …

Considering that tungsten (W) materials served as the plasma-facing material in the fusion
reactor would be exposed to edge-localized modes (ELMs)-like thermal shock loading …

The 2-D evolution of the plasma as it expands outside the capillary source, which simulates
ablation of plasma-facing materials due to high-heat flux deposition, is of importance to …

A two-dimensional, time-dependent model and code have been developed to model
electrothermal (ET) plasma discharges. ET plasma discharges are capillary discharges that …

The current study focuses on the adiabatic expansion of aerosol impurity in the post-
disruption and thermal quench scenario inside the vacuum chamber of a fusion reactor. A …

Capillary discharge devices generating electrothermal plasmas from ablation of a liner
material exposed to high heat flux are adequate devices to simulate fusion disruptions …