Student Number : 9608998A -
MSc dissertation -
School of Electrical and Information Engineering -
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment / The history of flux compression is relatively short. One of the founders, a
Russian physicist, Sakharov developed the idea of compressing a magnetic field
to generate high magnetic fields and from this he also developed a generator to
produce current impulses. Most of this initial work was performed in military
research laboratories. The first open source literature became available in the
1960s and from there it has become an international research arena. There
are two types of flux compression generators, field generators and current generators.
These are discussed along with the basic theory of flux compression
generators and related physics. The efficiency of generators is often quite low.
However in many generators high explosives are used and because of their
high energy density, the current or field strength produced is substantially
greater then the initial source. This of course limits the locations possible for
experimental work and subsequently limits the industrial applications of flux
compression generators .
This research presents a theoretical design for a non-explosive flux compression
generator. The generator is designed to produce a current impulse for
tests in laboratory and remote locations. The generator has the advantage
of being non-destructive, therefore reducing costs, and allowing for repeatable
experiments. The design also reduces the possibilities or many of the loss
mechanisms.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/1521 |
| Date | 31 October 2006 |
| Creators | Dickson, Andrew Stuart |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 11302834 bytes, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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