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Initial stages of the electrical explosion of a wire in an LC-loop

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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 6, pp. 18–25, November–December, 1978.

The authors express their thanks to A. P. Baikov and A. F. Shestak for kindly furnishing the experimental data, as well as to Yu. V. Bondarenko for his aid in the computations.

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Gerasimov, L.S., Pinchuk, A.I. & Stukalin, Y.A. Initial stages of the electrical explosion of a wire in an LC-loop. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 19, 721–727 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01201546

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