并联金属丝提高电爆炸丝沉积能量的数值模拟

对于低气压或真空环境中的电爆炸丝,因丝沿面击穿会过早终止能量沉积过程,使丝中沉积能量(Ed)大大低于金属丝完全汽化时所需能量(Es).本文提出并联金属丝法延缓沿面击穿时刻以提高电爆炸丝沉积能量.对电流上升时间为几十纳秒、幅值约为1 kA级作用下的金属丝电爆炸过程进行了数值模拟.结果表明,在电爆炸丝两端并联一定尺寸的金属丝可降低爆炸丝端电压上升率,从而推迟电压上升过程中沿面击穿时刻,显著提高丝中沉积能量和过热系数.     

Corona-free electrical explosion of polyimide-coated tungsten wire in vacuum

We present experimental evidence of corona-free electrical explosion of dielectric-coated W wire in vacuum. A fast current rise of approximately 150 A/ns and a coating of 2 microm polyimide are both needed to achieve the corona-free regime of explosion. Breakdown is absent in corona-free explosion; the wire remains resistive, and this allows anomalously high energy deposition (approximately 20 times atomization enthalpy). MHD simulations reproduce the main differences between corona and corona-free explosions. A corona-free explosion of a wire can be useful for the generation of a hot plasma column by direct energy deposition.     

丝阵负载Z箍缩早期过程的研究

利用X箍缩等离子体产生的μm级、亚ns脉冲X射线点源对双丝电爆炸过程进行了X射线背光照相,结果表明:真空环境下爆炸丝通常形成“核冕”结构,即高密度丝核表面围绕着低密度冕等离子体;随后在全局磁场驱动下,冕层将被连续剥离并向轴线汇聚,形成“先驱等离子体”,大大降低丝阵的内爆品质。针对上述问题,进一步对实现“无核丝爆”(提高丝核沉积能量实现金属丝的均匀汽化)的方法进行了研究。实验结果表明:提高驱动电流上升率以及在金属丝表面构造正向径向电场均有利于丝核沉积能量的提高。结合上述两种方法,提出了阴极串联闪络开关的电极构型,大幅度提高了丝核沉积能量:正负极性驱动电流下比能量分别提高到原来的2倍(从5.7 eV/atom到13 eV/atom)和3.5倍(3.4 eV/atom到12 eV/atom),均超过了钨丝汽化能(8.8 eV/atom),且激光干涉图像表明爆炸产物具有很高的汽化率,即实现了“无核丝爆”。     

Ultrashort electron beam and volume high-current discharge in air under the atmospheric pressure

Conditions are studied under which an electron beam and a volume discharge with a subnanosecond rise time of a voltage pulse are produced in air under atmospheric pressure. It is shown that the electron beam appears in a gas-filled diode at the front of the voltage pulse in ∼0.5 ns, has a half-intensity duration of ≤0.4 ns and an average electron energy of ∼0.6 of the voltage across the gas-filled diode, and terminates when the voltage across the gap reaches its maximum value. The electron beam with an average electron energy of 60 to 80 keV and a current amplitude of ≥70 A is obtained. It is assumed that the electron beam is formed from electrons produced in the gap due to gas ionization by fast electrons when the intensity of the field between the front of the expanding plasma cloud and the anode reaches its critical value. A nanosecond volume discharge with a specific power input of ≥400 MW/cm³, a density of the discharge current at the anode of up to 3 kA/cm², and specific energy deposition of ∼1 J/cm³ over 3 to 5 ns is created.     

High-pressure,high-temperature thermophysical measurements on tungsten

Abstract

Wire shaped tungsten samples (0.25 mm diameter, 40 mm length, 99.97%) are resistively pulse heated as part of a coaxially built up capacitor discharge circuit. With heating rates of more than 10⁹ K/s, temperatures up to 12000 K are reached. The tungsten wire is contained with the surrounding medium water in a high pressure vessel with sapphire windows and a maximum pressure capability of 0.5 GPa. Time correlated measurements of the current through the wire and the voltage drop across it as well as surface radiation and wire expansion can be performed simultaneously and allow the determination of thermophysical properties for the liquid tungsten (see key words). All measuring systems have rise times less than 10 ns.     

铜丝水中电爆炸能量沉积特性

对s脉冲电压作用下铜丝水中电爆炸的能量沉积过程进行了实验研究,利用自积分Rogowski线圈和电阻分压器分别测量铜丝电爆炸时的电流和电压。利用测量电压波形确定了熔融起始、熔融结束、汽化起始和击穿时刻点,将铜丝电爆炸划分成熔融、液态和汽化3个阶段。通过数学方法计算了3个阶段和击穿前的沉积总能量。通过实验和计算,分析了电路参数,包括放电电压和回路电感,以及铜丝特性,包括铜丝长度和直径,对铜丝电爆炸过程中3个阶段和击穿前沉积总能量的影响。结果表明:在s脉冲电压作用下,放电电压、回路电感、铜丝长度和直径对熔融阶段能量沉积影响较小,但对液态和汽化阶段能量沉积影响较大,通过调节电路参数提高电流上升速率,可以显著提高汽化和击穿前的沉积能量。     

Study of metal conductivity near the critical point using a microwire electrical explosion in water

Electrical explosion of aluminum and tungsten microwires in water was studied both experimentally and numerically. The experimental range of currents through the wire was 0.1–1 kA for explosion times of 40–300 ns and current densities up to 1.5×10⁸ A/cm². The experimental results were interpreted on the basis of magnetohydrodynamical simulation with various metal conductivity models. A comparison of the experimental and numerical results allows the conclusion to be drawn that the metal conductivity models used in this work are adequate.     

Radiation characteristics and implosion dynamics of tungsten wire array Z-pinches on the YANG accelerator

We investigated the radiation characteristics and implosion dynamics of low-wire-number cylindrical tungsten wire array Z-pinches on the YANG accelerator with a peak current 0.8-1.1 MA and a rising time ～ 90 ns.The arrays are made up of(8-32)×5 μm wires 6/10 mm in diameter and 15 mm in height.The highest X-ray power obtained in the experiments was about 0.37 TW with the total radiation energy ～ 13 kJ and the energy conversion efficiency ～ 9%(24×5 μm wires,6 mm in diameter).Most of the X-ray emissions from tungsten Z-pinch plasmas were distributed in the spectral band of 100-600 eV,peaked at 250 and 375 eV.The dominant wavelengths of the wire ablation and the magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability were found and analyzed through measuring the time-gated self-emission and laser interferometric images.Through analyzing the implosion trajectories obtained by an optical streak camera,the run-in velocities of the Z-pinch plasmas at the end of the implosion phase were determined to be about(1.3-2.1)×10 7 cm/s.     

The current density and the specific energy input in fastelectrical explosion

The electrical explosion of wires is considered as a method for studying the behavior of materials under the conditions of fast heating. A fast electrical explosion occurs subject to the conditions that the heating time is shorter than the time required for capillary and magnetohydrodynamic instabilities to develop and that this time is longer than the time required for the current to expand throughout the wire cross section. Corresponding similarity criteria have been derived for each of the processes disturbing the uniform heating of a wire. The conditions for fast electrical explosion have been experimentally realized. The current density was varied from 10⁷-10⁹ A/cm² resulting in heating rates between 10¹⁰ and 10¹³ J/(g.s). Exploded wires of copper, nickel, tungsten, and molybdenum were investigated. These experiments have shown that the energy density introduced into the wire material depends on the heating rate (i.e., the current density). Fourfold overheating of the materials in the condensed state has been attained. It has been found that the specific current action also increases with increasing current density but to a lesser degree than the energy input     

Shunting effect in explosive electron emission

An explanation is given to the results of an experiment on studying the explosive electron emission in a wire-cathode diode where a strongly nonuniform energy deposition into the wire material was observed using an X pinch as a radiation source for projection x-ray imaging. The specific input energy, contrary to the well-known observations, was not a maximum at the wire end, i.e., in the region of the strongest electric field, and the wire explosion occurred in the bulk, distant from the end. This is accounted for by the contribution of the wire side surface to explosive electron emission and by the gas desorption from the wire intensely heated by a current of density 10⁸ A/cm². Thus, the space between anode and cathode (wire end) is bridged by two plasmas: one generated due to the explosive electron emission from the wire side surface and the other produced from the desorbed gas.     

电爆金属丝产生纳米粉体

建立了一台用于纳米粉体制备的电爆炸金属丝装置,它可以在不打开放电腔体情况下,依次电爆炸8根金属丝。对电爆炸金属丝进行了电路模拟,电路模拟结果表明,减小放电回路电感,或在保持电容器初始储能不变条件下,提高充电电压的同时减小储能电容可提高能量注入速率。为了理解金属蒸气形成纳米粉体的物理过程,利用马赫-曾德激光干涉方法,研究了丝爆后金属蒸气及等离子体的演化过程,得到了电爆丝的典型物理图像,观察到电爆丝中金属蒸气喷发的"热滞后"现象及金属蒸气的多次喷发现象。并利用电爆丝法制备了氮化钛、二氧化钛、铜氧化物和氧化锌的纳米粉体。     

用PET薄膜覆盖金属丝网电极实现大气压空气中均匀放电

将325^#不锈钢丝网电极和0.1 mm厚的PET薄膜紧贴在一起,平整地固定在Rogowski电极基座上,用50 Hz工频电压源及并联稳压电容,在大气压下2 mm空气间隙中实现了均匀放电.实验表明：将放电电流和电荷量波形作为判断放电均匀性的依据并不是完全可靠的,它只能判断放电在时间上的一致性,而不足以判断放电在空间上的均匀性.只有拍摄曝光时间不大于100ns的放电图像,才能可靠地判断放电的均匀性.在金属丝网电极覆盖PET薄膜的大气压气体放电实验中,这种放电图像被拍摄到,并说明大气压空气中的均匀放电只是汤森放电,而非辉光放电. 关键词： 大气压辉光放电 金属丝网电极 驻极体 高速摄影     

真空及空气中金属丝电爆炸特性研究

开展了铝丝在真空和空气环境中的电爆炸特性研究.从金属丝电爆炸的电压、电流波形得到了金属丝内的沉积能量,并基于以上电参数特征分析了电爆炸产物的状态,获得了空气中铝丝电爆炸电流暂停时间随初级储能电容充电电压的变化规律.真空和空气中铝丝电爆炸在电压击穿时刻的沉积能量分别为2.8和6 eV/atom.采用波长为532 nm、亚纳秒激光探针对金属丝电爆炸物理过程开展了高时空分辨率的阴影和纹影诊断.阴影图像清晰地展示了不同气氛环境中高密度电爆炸产物的膨胀过程,根据光学诊断图像分析了高密度丝核沉积能量的结构和空气中铝丝电爆炸产生的激波的膨胀轨迹.真空和空气环境中高密度电爆炸产物的平均膨胀速度分别为1.9和3 km/s.基于实验数据和输运参数模型,估算了金属丝在电压击穿时刻的温度.     

等离子体断路开关装置上的多丝Z箍缩初步实验

 开展了基于等离子体断路开关的脉冲功率源驱动多丝Z箍缩负载初步实验,实验中采用了2根或4根钨丝组成的环形阵列,其中钨丝的直径分别为7 mm和20 mm。利用高速扫描摄影获取钨丝电爆炸和箍缩过程中等离子体自发光的物理图像。实验结果表明：导通电流为105 kA的等离子体断路开关将67%~78%的电流转换至金属丝阵负载上,负载电流上升沿为84~110 ns。高速扫描相机观察到了钨丝电爆炸形成晕等离子体及其向轴线箍缩和后期向外膨胀的物理过程。     

Formation of extended directional breakdown channels produced by a copper wire exploding in the atmosphere

Experimental data for switching initiated by the electrical breakdown of air gaps up to 1.9 m long with an arbitrary geometry that are produced by an exploding copper wire 90 μm in diameter are presented. At an initial voltage of 11 kV, the stored energy equals 100–2100 J. Two channel formation conditions are possible: explosion of a wire without electrical breakdown and electrical breakdown in a channel produced by an exploding wire with a delay (current pause) no longer than 250 μs. Current and voltage waveforms across the discharge gap, as well as the resistivity values, under the electrical breakdown conditions are shown. Mechanisms and conditions for streamer initiation at a mean electric field strength in the discharge gap of 5.3–17.0 kV/m are discussed. The geometrical dimensions of plasma objects in the forming channel, the run of the electrical current under breakdown, and the formation mechanism of wire explosion products are found from color microphotographs. The formation mechanism of large aerosols in the form of tiny spherical copper and copper oxide (CuO, Cu₂O) particles under wire explosion conditions is discussed.     

铜镍合金丝电爆炸放电特性与时空演化行为

脉冲电流驱动金属丝电爆炸可产生具有较高能量密度的等离子体,并伴随脉冲电磁辐射、强冲击波等效应,广泛应用于Z箍缩、电热化学武器、油气助采等领域;与纯金属相比,合金具备电阻率高、成分可调、相变复杂等特点,在电爆炸效应参数的调控方面具有很大潜力。开展了大气空气介质中铜、镍、铜镍（康铜）丝在微秒时间尺度电脉冲作用下电爆炸实验研究,通过放电参数与自辐射图像诊断,获取电爆炸过程放电参数与时空演变的特性规律,得到脉冲电流作用下合金电爆炸在相变与等离子体方面的特征。实验发现,在电爆炸早期,铜镍合金的高电阻率能够提高能量沉积效率:铜52%、镍74%、铜镍合金78%;而相爆开始后,合金丝负载则更接近纯镍丝负载性能。等离子体通道早期膨胀速率在5 mm/μs量级,随后迅速衰减;合金丝等离子体膨胀时间更久,击穿后平均电阻率上升缓慢,且等离子体辐射与金属爆炸产物在空间尺度上存在关联性。特别地,铜镍合金气溶胶分层同时具有横向和纵向特征（特征尺度10?1 mm）,但整体较铜气溶胶更为均匀。     

快前沿直线脉冲变压器平台单丝电爆炸实验研究

基于前沿约100 ns、电流约100 kA的快前沿直线脉冲变压器（FLTD）平台,开展了单丝电爆炸相关实验研究。围绕FLTD平台搭建了激光探针和可见光分幅相机等离子体图像诊断系统,采用可见光PIN和XRD分别测量了单丝电爆炸的辐射特性。实验获得了不同时刻对应的W丝（15 m）和镀膜W丝（15 m W+2m 聚胺亚胺）电爆炸的物理图像,呈现了两种情况下金属丝融蚀过程以及等离子体不稳定性发展的过程。实验结果表明,镀膜能够增加电流初始阶段的能量馈入,进而改善金属丝的电爆炸特性。     

丝电爆过程的电流导入机理

丝电爆制备纳米粉时, 电流从电极导入金属丝的过程直接影响电极烧损和粉末中微米级大颗粒产生. 分别通过接触和气体放电两种方式导入电流进行电爆试验. 结果表明, 光测量装置检测到的丝端部光电流几乎与回路放电电流同时产生, 而中间位置的光电流则要滞后一段时间; 由探针收集的产物确定, 金属丝端部主要形成熔融粒子, 中间部分主要形成气相粒子. 分析可知, 接触方式导入电流时, 丝端部也存在气体放电现象, 大电流主要通过气体放电形成的等离子体导入. 等离子体对电流的旁路作用会阻碍能量向金属丝沉积, 这是产生微米级大颗粒和"积瘤"主要原因. 通过气体放电方式导入电流时, 电极烧损明显减轻, 并可以避免"积瘤"产生.     

Z箍缩等离子体电流分布实验研究

在"强光一号"装置上, 利用微型磁探针系统测量了钨丝阵负载内部的消融等离子体携带的电流, 对比了有无泡沫柱两种负载条件下内部电流分布的差异, 获得了稳定可靠的实验数据. 实验中使用了由42 根4.2 μm 钨丝组成的直径12 mm 的丝阵负载, 脉冲电流峰值为1.34 MA, 上升时间约70 ns. 结果表明: 在电流放电开始约20 ns 后, 半径3.2 mm 处的磁探针有明显的信号输出, 随后的20 ns 内, 内部等离子体分流比迅速上升至约20%, 并在30—40 ns 内基本保持稳定. 丝阵加载泡沫柱后, 内部电流值在Z 箍缩前期没有明显变化.