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

Capillary discharge plasmas have been widely used in many fields. This paper investigates
the influence of different explosion wire materials on the radiative heat flux and spectral …

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 …

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 …

Capillary pulsed electrothermal plasma source coupled to a linear converging–diverging
nozzle was previously found to be adequate as a simulator for the supersonic bulk flow …