Experimental study of shock waves from the interaction of a supersonic plasma jet with an ambient gas
2012
Preliminary results of the interaction of a supersonic, radiatively cooled plasma jet with an ambient gas are presented. The experimental setup consists of a radial foil, a mum-thick aluminium disc held between two concentric electrodes and subjected to a 1.4 MA, 250-ns current pulse from the MAGPIE generator. The plasma flow, with typical velocities of ~70–90 km/s, is produced by the J × B force acting on the plasma ablated from the foil. A jet is formed from the convergence of this ablated plasma on the axis of the system. A new setup allows the jet to interact with an argon ambient (particle density N ~1016-17 cm−3) from a supersonic gas nozzle (Mach ~9). First results are characterised by the presence of several (previously unseen) shock structures, which are formed from the interaction of the jet with the argon ambient.
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