Peter Senior

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the development of a very efficient computer model for the design and performance prediction of explosive-driven helical generators, which is based on simple theoretical considerations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the application of various numerical techniques used to design a successful generator, such as filamentary modelling and electrostatic and transient circuit analysis, enabling accurate modelling of the overall unit to be performed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate unequivocally that in a launcher, electrostatic to kinetic energy conversion can be achieved with an efficiency exceeding 50% using two numerical models, with the first of these being a fast and simple method of establishing the optimum launcher design, and for the first time highlighting the various factors that limit the global efficiency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the work undertaken to reliably use off-the-shelf differentiating voltage probes attached to coaxial transmission lines and prove that such probes are a valid and simple instrument for measuring nanosecond and sub-nanosecond voltage impulses.

TL;DR: In this article, the basic concepts that underlie a fundamental research activity initiated recently at Loughborough University, U.K. are described, which enables the so-termed shock-wave-driven flux compression process to be performed inside a laboratory, without the need for any high-explosive charge, and results from preliminary proof-of-principle experiments are analyzed.