Results and analysis of a microsecond time scale underwater electrical wire explosion are presented. Experiments were carried out with a Cu wire exploded by a current pulse ⩽100kA with microsecond time duration. The analysis is based on shadow and spectrally resolved streak photography which were used to monitor the evolution of the discharge channel and the shock wave. The obtained data were used for hydrodynamic calculation of the generated water flow parameters, such as pressure and flow velocity distribution between the discharge channel and the shock wave. In particular, the pressure at the discharge channel boundary and the energy transferred to the water were estimated. The results of the calculation have been verified by comparing the measured and calculated trajectories of the shock wave. Based on the results of the calculation the energy transferred to the water was estimated. In addition, the analysis shows that the energy initially deposited in the discharge channel continues to produce mechanical work after the deposition of the electrical energy has ended.

No abstract

Decadal long simulations of atmospheric circulation in the high latitudes have been carried out using a multiscale atmospheric modeling system that consists of MGO global and regional atmospheric models with respective resolutions of 200, 50 and 25 km in the horizontal. The detailed analysis of extratropical cyclone activity including activity of polar mesocyclones has been conducted for the winter season using an advanced cyclone identification and tracking scheme. To enhance the applicability of high-resolution regional atmospheric modeling in the context of detailed general atmospheric circulation analysis, an end-to-end approach for cyclone trajectory calculation on a unified global and regional grid has been proposed. It has been shown that increasing modeling resolution in the high latitudes allows one to more realistically simulate the activity of baroclinic waves and the thermal regime of the Arctic troposphere. The statistical structure of cyclonic activity has been investigated depending on the spatial resolution of the modeling system and compared with that in the reanalyses and satellite-derived analyses. The performance of the atmospheric models in the simulation of extreme cyclones is evaluated.

Analysis of time- and space-resolved spectrum of radiation emitted from the discharge channel generated by an underwater electrical wire explosion is reported. The purpose of this investigation was to detect a possible shunting corona discharge. During careful analysis of the emitted radiation no evidence for such discharge was found. Discharge temperature of 7eV was estimated by quantitative analysis of the emitted spectra.

The results of the first experiments on the underwater electrical explosion of a spherical wire array generating a converging strong shock wave are reported. Using a moderate pulse power generator with a stored energy of ≤6 kJ and discharge current of ≤500 kA with a rise-time of ∼300 ns, explosions of Cu and Al wire arrays of different diameters and with a different number and diameter of wires were tested. Electrical, optical, and destruction diagnostics were used to determine the energy deposited into the array, the time-of-flight of the shock wave to the origin of the implosion, and the parameters of water at that location. The experimental and numerical simulation results indicate that the convergence of the shock wave leads to the formation of an extreme state of water in the vicinity of the implosion origin that is characterized by pressure, temperature, and compression factors of (2 ± 0.2) × 1012 Pa, 8 ± 0.5 eV, and 7 ± 0.5, respectively.