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Experimental evidence for collisional shock formation via two obliquely merging supersonic plasma jets
Elizabeth C. Merritt, Auna L. Moser, Scott C. Hsu +4
We report spatially resolved measurements of the oblique merging of two supersonic laboratory plasma jets. The jets are formed and launched by pulsed-power-driven railguns using in…
Experimental characterization of the stagnation layer between two obliquely merging supersonic plasma jets
Elizabeth C. Merritt, Auna L. Moser, Scott C. Hsu +2
We present spatially resolved measurements characterizing the stagnation layer between two obliquely merging supersonic plasma jets. Intra-jet collisionality is very high ($λ_{ii}…
Experimental characterization of railgun-driven supersonic plasma jets motivated by high energy density physics applications
S. C. Hsu, E. C. Merritt, A. L. Moser +11
We report experimental results on the parameters, structure, and evolution of high-Mach-number (M) argon plasma jets formed and launched by a pulsed-power-driven railgun. The nomin…
Multi-chord fiber-coupled interferometry of supersonic plasma jets and comparisons with synthetic data
Elizabeth C. Merritt, Alan G. Lynn, Mark A. Gilmore +3
A multi-chord fiber-coupled interferometer [Merritt et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. 83, 033506 (2012)] is being used to make time-resolved density measurements of supersonic argon plasm…
Multi-chord fiber-coupled interferometer with a long coherence length laser
Elizabeth C. Merritt, Alan G. Lynn, Mark A. Gilmore +1
This paper describes a 561 nm laser heterodyne interferometer that provides time-resolved measurements of line-integrated plasma electron density within the range of 10^15-10^18 cm…