Superhigh Magnetic Field Generation by a Cumulating Liner and a Magnetopressed Discharge

Abstract

It was shown in [2] that the effective confinement of very high magnetic fields is possible by currents in plasma pressed by the magnetic field to solid nonconductive material. A cylindrical one-dimensional code was used with consideration of all possible transport and dissipation processes to investigate the dynamics of discharge formation both in initial phase and during the magnetic flux compression. It is shown that the formation time for magnetopressed highly conductive discharge depends on hydrogen plasma parameters (β << 1) near the liner inner wall. Calculations are performed for some combinations of initial parameters of the liner and magnetic field.