A study of the plasma parameters in a capillary discharge was conducted using an
experimental electrothermal plasma facility. The experimental results are compared to …

Electrothermal plasma sources operating in the confined controlled arc discharge regime
produce heat fluxes in the range expected for hard disruptions in future large tokamaks. The …

Energy transfer processes from ELM-like pulsed helium (He) plasmas with a pulse duration
of∼ 0.1 ms to aluminum (Al) and tungsten (W) surfaces were experimentally investigated by …

Electrothermal mass accelerators, based on capillary discharges, that form a plasma
propelling force from the ablation of a low-z liner material are candidates for fuelling …

Erosion characteristics of tungsten-alternative plasma-facing materials (PFMs) were tested
under high heat flux conditions in the electrothermal plasma source facility at Oak Ridge …

The behavior of the transient heat flux produced by a three-electrode capillary discharge
generator working at a repetitive mode is presented in this paper. The radial distribution …

Power sources play an important role in the characteristics and the applications of the
electrothermal (ET) plasma as an edge localized mode (ELM) heat flux simulator. A …

An ablation-dominated capillary discharge using low atomic number elements for plasma
formation to flow into an ablation-free extension barrel is a concept that provides a high …

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 …