Numerical Investigation on Influence of Wire Dimension on Energy Deposition Stage in Single Wire Electrical Explosion

The initial stage of wire array Z-pinch,i.e.the energy deposition stage in single wire electrical explosion,plays a very important role in the performance of the whole Z-pinch process.In this paper,this stage was modeled and simulated.Based on a mathematic model coupled with external circuit,the influence of wire dimension on the waveforms of current and voltage and the voltage-peak time in the energy deposition stage was studied.The calculated specific power indicates that time of the energy deposition extends with wire length quadratically.For normal wire dimension of wire array Z-pinch,the energy deposition time decreases slowly with the decreasing wire diameter,until approaches a minimum depended on the wire length.