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An efficient numerical code for simulating the propagation of a high-power electromagnetic pulse in a vacuum transmission line is required to study the physical phenomena occurring in such a line, to analyze the operation of present-day megavolt generators at an ∼10-TW power level, and to design such new devices. The main physical theoretical principles are presented, and the stability of flows in the near-threshold region at the boundary of the regime of magnetic self-insulation is investigated based on one-dimensional telegraph equations with electron losses. Numerical (difference) methods—specifically, a method of characteristics and a finite-difference scheme—are described and their properties and effectiveness are compared by analyzing the high-frequency modes.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Samokhin, 2010, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2010, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 167–181.
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Samokhin, A.A. Numerical investigation of the physical model of a high-power electromagnetic wave in a magnetically insulated transmission line. Plasma Phys. Rep. 36, 149–163 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X10020066
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