The Z-pinch, perhaps the oldest subject in plasma physics, has achieved a remarkable
renaissance in recent years, following a few decades of neglect due to its basically unstable …

The Z accelerator [RB Spielman, WA Stygar, JF Seamen et al., Proceedings of the 11th
International Pulsed Power Conference, Baltimore, MD, 1997, edited by G. Cooperstein and …

Resistive magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are used to evaluate the influence of
three-dimensional inhomogeneities on x-ray power production in wire array Z-pinches. In …

Over the last several years, rapid progress has been made evaluating the double-z-pinch
indirect-drive, inertial confinement fusion (ICF) high-yield target concept (Hammer et al 1999 …

We present observations for 20-MA wire-array z pinches of an extended wire ablation period
of 57%±3% of the stagnation time of the array and non-thin-shell implosion trajectories …

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability using three-
dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations. We consider the idealized case of two …

Measurements on plasma focus ion beams include various advanced techniques producing
a variety of data which has yet to produce benchmark numbers [A Bernard et al., J. Mosc …

We describe herein a system of self-magnetically insulated vacuum transmission lines
(MITLs) that operated successfully at 20 MA, 3 MV, and 55 TW. The system delivered the …

The mass ablation phase of a wire-array Z pinch is investigated using steady-state (r, θ)
simulations. By identifying the dominant physical mechanisms governing the ablation …

The implosion phase of a wire-array Z pinch is investigated using three-dimensional (3D)
simulations, which model the mass ablation phase and its associated axial instability using a …